WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Agrarian (pre-industrial) societies are characterized by the fact that the overwhelming portion of productive tasks are performed in agriculture and self-provisioning of the household. The (extended) family is also the productive unit.

Detailed explanation-2: -Social structure and working conditions Harsh working conditions were prevalent long before the Industrial Revolution took place. Pre-industrial society was very static and often cruel – child labour, dirty living conditions, and long working hours were not equally as prevalent before the Industrial Revolution.

Detailed explanation-3: -agrarian era-An era of human history, beginning roughly 10, 000 years ago and lasting until the beginning of the modern era, when the production of food through agriculture was a central focus of many human societies, and a large number of people living in those societies worked the land.

Detailed explanation-4: -Before the Industrial Revolution, most Americans lived on farms. The whole family worked together to make what they needed for daily life. They bartered (traded) for items they could not make themselves.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first agrarian societies began to develop about 3300 BCE. These early farming societies started in four areas: 1) Mesopotamia, 2) Egypt and Nubia, 3) the Indus Valley, and 4) the Andes Mountains of South America. More appeared in China around 2000 BCE and in modern-day Mexico and Central America c.