HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Question
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It led to population growth
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It increased food supplies
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It caused farmers to lose land and seek out other work.
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All options are true
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Detailed explanation-1: -During the Second Agricultural Revolution, humans industrialized farming to produce greater crop yields with fewer workers. This allowed larger cities to form and paved the way for the First Industrial Revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Agricultural Revolution helped bring about the Industrial Revolution through innovations and inventions that altered how the farming process worked. These new processes in turn created a decline in both the intensity of the work and the number of agricultural laborers needed.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Agricultural Revolution helped spark the Industrial Revolution by: increasing the amount of food produced and decreasing the number of farmworkers. The Agricultural Revolution paved the way for the Industrial Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -(i) More Demand of Raw-Material: There was a rapid growth in the demand for raw material. It was an effect on industrialisation. (ii) Mechanised Farming: To meet the increasing demand for more raw material the farmers used the new machines for sowing, ploughing, digging, reaping and thrashing purposes.
Detailed explanation-5: -The introduction of high-yielding varieties (HYV) of seeds and the improved quality of fertilizers and irrigation techniques led to the increase in the production to make the country self-sufficient in food grains, thus improving agriculture in India.
Detailed explanation-6: -In the case of the Agricultural Revolution, that new technology was the agricultural knowledge combined with new tools, such as the plough. The Industrial Revolution was primarily driven by machines powered by external sources of energy other than humans or animals, such as the steam engine.