HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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manufacturing
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fishing
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farming
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hunting
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Detailed explanation-1: -Expert-Verified Answer. Before the industrial revolution, most people were farmers, and the most economic activity gathered around small towns and villages.
Detailed explanation-2: -Before the Industrial Revolution started, life was very hard. People worked on farms and had to use their own strength to plow their fields and harvest their crops. Farmers did have animals to help but handling the animals could also be difficult. There was no electricity.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the 1760s, largely with new developments in the textile industry.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Industrial Revolution was the transition from creating goods by hand to using machines. Its start and end are widely debated by scholars, but the period generally spanned from about 1760 to 1840.