Why was the Agricultural Revolution such a world changing event? How did it change how people lived and lead to civilization?
my finals are coming up and i need and answer|||the simple answer is the rise of cities|||Well part of it is the obvious, more food could be harvested in larger amounts with a faster time from start to finish because of new more efficient technology. This spike in the amount of food produced created a larger population because more people could be fed, there fore there was more labor to be used during the Industrial Revolution. It also created more cash crop and food materials for colonies and cash crop nations (like the United States at the time with cotton) to either be exploited even further (the colonies) or to gain enough capital in their own economies so that they eventually became industrialized (the nations). The more efficient tools also caused a decrease in the need of manual labor, meaning that less people had to work to get just as much food, causing the number of people in cities to spike and in tern fueling the mass amounts of cheap labor needed for the industrial Revolution.
Edit: Which one do you mean? The Agricultural Revolution in the Neolithic era or the Agricultural Revolution of the 1800%26#039;s?|||Let me draw an analogy with the development of textile technology.
If technology reduces a pair of pants from 10 percent of your annual income to one percent of your annual income, you now have 9 percent of your income to spend on other things.
