HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Question
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More food
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People were healthier
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Population increased greatly
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All of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Agricultural Revolution impacted the environment, transforming forests and previously undisturbed land into farmland, destroyed habitats, decreased biodiversity and released carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Agricultural Revolution led to a drastic increase in population in Great Britain and elsewhere, and increased urbanization because people moved away from their farms to cities.
Detailed explanation-3: -For many years the agricultural revolution in England was thought to have occurred because of three major changes: the selective breeding of livestock; the removal of common property rights to land; and new systems of cropping, involving turnips and clover.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Neolithic Revolution, or the (First) Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly large population possible.