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Agricultural revolution



 
  Agricultural revolution can refer to the:
  • Neolithic Revolution
    Neolithic Revolution

    The Neolithic Revolution was the first agricultural revolution—the transition from hunter-gatherer communities and bands, to agriculture and settlement ....
     also the 'First Agricultural Revolution' (about 10,000 years ago), which formed the basis for human civilization to develop
  • Green Revolution
    Green Revolution

    Green Revolution usually refers to the transformation of agriculture that began in 1945. One significant factor came at the request of the Mexican government to establish an agricultural research station to develop more varieties of wheat that could be used to feed the rapidly growing population of the country....
     (post-1945), the use of industrial fertilizers and new crops greatly increases the world's agricultural output
  • Muslim Agricultural Revolution
    Muslim Agricultural Revolution

    The Islamic Golden Age from the 8th century to the 13th century witnessed a fundamental transformation in agriculture known as the Arab Agricultural Revolution, Medieval Green Revolution, or Muslim Agricultural Revolution....
     (10th century), which led to increased urbanization and major changes in agriculture and economy during the Islamic Golden Age
    Islamic Golden Age

    The Islamic Golden Age, also sometimes known as the Islamic Renaissance, was traditionally dated from the 700 A.D. to 1200 A.D.Common Era, but has been extended to the 15th and 16th centuries by some scholars....
  • British Agricultural Revolution
    British Agricultural Revolution

    The British Agricultural Revolution describes a period of development in Britain between the 17th century and the end of the 19th century, which saw a massive increase in agricultural productivity and net output....
     (18th century), which spurred urbanization and consequently helped launch the Industrial Revolution
    Industrial Revolution

    The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, production, and transportation had a profound effect on the socioeconomics and cultural conditions in United Kingdom....
  • Scottish Agricultural Revolution
    Scottish Agricultural Revolution

    The Agricultural Revolution in Scotland began in the mid-eighteenth century with the improvements of Scottish Lowlands farmland and the beginning of a transformation of Scottish agriculture from one of the most backward into what was to become the most modern and productive system in Europe....
     (18th century), which led to the "Lowland Clearances
    Lowland Clearances

    The Lowland Clearances in Scotland were one of the results of the British Agricultural Revolution, which changed the traditional system of agriculture which had existed in Scottish Lowlands in the seventeenth century....
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