agricultural revolution
Neolithic cultivation shift
Agricultural revolution refers to a major transformation in farming practices.
The term most often means the Neolithic shift from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture, beginning around 10,000 BCE—one of the most consequential changes in human history.
It also describes the British agricultural innovations of the 18th century that increased crop yields and freed labor for industrialization.
Some use the term for the 20th-century Green Revolution in crop science.
- enclosure actsLaws converting commons
- farmingCultivating land for food
- harvestGathering mature crops
- cultivationFostering growth through care
- domesticationAdapting species to captivity
crops · land reform · fertilizers · crop rotation · root vegetables · subsistence farming · ploughing · horse-drawn plow · innovation · pesticides · Jethro Tull · plant breeding · irrigation systems · revolutionization · soil fertility · agronomy · selective breeding · seed drill
- Georgian BritainGeorge III, Walpole, Culloden, Georgian era, Regency period
- historical forcescultural shifts, political change, social progress, economic development, technological change
- landscape historyland use, deforestation, enclosure, terracing, drainage
- Economic ErasGreat Depression, Gilded Age, Roaring Twenties, Great Recession, New Deal era
- prehistorystone tools, Neolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen
- settlementvillages, towns, urban development, population growth, wells
agricultural revolutionIndustrial Revolution
Era of mechanized production
digital revolution · information age · machine age · technological revolution · service economy
agricultural revolutionforaging
Seeking wild food sources
hunting and gathering · nomadic lifestyle · nomadism · Paleolithic era · subsistence hunting
agriculture, agricultural, agriculturalist, agriculturally, agribusiness, agrarian, agrarianism, revolve, revolution