LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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More and bigger tools required additional buildings to house them, horses to run them, and experienced laborers. Smaller farms could not afford to spend money on equipment used only a few weeks out of the year.
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The old tools, like the scythe, were put to other uses.
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More people became farmers.
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Additional tools and requirements meant more expense, so farmers earned more money and became much wealthier than before.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The agricultural revolution had a variety of consequences for humans. It has been linked to everything from societal inequality-a result of humans’ increased dependence on the land and fears of scarcity-to a decline in nutrition and a rise in infectious diseases contracted from domesticated animals.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Industrial Revolution brought about sweeping changes in economic and social organization. These changes included a wider distribution of wealth and increased international trade. Managerial hierarchies also developed to oversee the division of labor.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Industrial Revolution shifted from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy where products were no longer made solely by hand but by machines. This led to increased production and efficiency, lower prices, more goods, improved wages, and migration from rural areas to urban areas.
Detailed explanation-4: -By reducing labor costs, such machines not only reduced manufacturing costs but lowered prices manufacturers charged consumers. In short, machine production created a growing abundance of products at cheaper prices. Mechanization also had less desirable effects. For one, machines changed the way people worked.