05+Identify+the+causes+of+the+Industrial+Revolution

** A. Describe the rise in agricultural productivity, including new technologies, like the seed drill and new crops beginning with the 15th Century's Columbian Exchange led to a greater population: ** New technology's were being discovered meaning that the scientific advancement was astronomical in this time, it lead to many mills being made to produce products at a maximum rate.
 * Identify the causes of the Industrial Revolution (92-99):**

With the inventions of agricultural technologies there was more abundant, and healthier, food. This lead to a smaller death rate, with less of a risk of famine, and a higher birth rate because the women ate better and therefor had stronger babies who had a higher chance of survival. With more food and better farming technologies, the cities could become more popular to the farming classes. It led to factories, and higher populations

Many of the technologies were more better than they used to be. The technology were advancing in many ways like making the world healtheir and able to get more food and more.
A seed drill is a sowing device that precisely positions seeds in the soil and then covers them. Before the introduction of the seed drill, the common practice was to "broadcast" seeds by hand. Besides being wasteful, broadcasting was very imprecise and led to a poor distribution of seeds, leading to low productivity. The use of a seed drill can improve the ratio of crop yield by as much as eight times.

Because of new technology, people were able to produce better and more food to feed their families, unlike before. Before people were struggling to survive but mow there was more food and more people.

The introduction of new technologies meant more food production, but it also meant that less people were needed to farm. This meant there were more people available for work in factories which helped start the Industrial Revolution.

Because trade and work grew larger, the larger amount of the population was most found in cities rather than towns.

New technologies like the seed drill helped produce more crops but led to a shortage of farming jobs. The increased number of crops helped create an increase in population, and former farmers could now work in factories.

New technologies were formed to make jobs easier, less labor intensive and to cut back the amount of time a task was done in. Technologies like the seed drill increased the rate at which plants where planted and grown. That increased the number of products being sold and the amount of money made off these products.

This was a contributing factor in slavery for cash crop production as well as the technological invocations such as the assembly line, replaceable parts and factory style intense labor system that developed in the cities. The seed drill made helped farmers get their work done faster and letting them get more plants planted for a better crop season and more money. This let more food be given to more peolple and people wouldn't die as much.

The seed drill increased crop production as much as eight times, as it was way more efficient than spreading seeds by hand. With a surplus in food, the population also grew bigger, as it was easier to feed more people.

In the New World, Europeans encountered indigenous plant foods, often cultivated by Native Americans, such as potatoes, beans, squash, and maize (corn), probably the world's most important cereal crop

 Read more: [] The agricultural revolution was led by the dutch. They started to use fertalizers The British continued this idea and added new types of soil and new machiones, like the seed planter, to help better their productivity. The seed planter was a device that was pulled by an ox or other livestock and would plant seeds in straight lines. This also helped with the weeding of the crops.

The Agricultural Revolution had many new technologies that helped improve and speed up activity. Also, there was a decline in death-rates because of all the better food and less diseases because everyone became more sanitary.

** B. Describe how transportation improvements such as canals and railroads led to greater movement of goods and more markets: **

The Industrial Revolution improved Britain's transport infrastructure with a turnpike road network, a canal and waterway network, and a railway network. Raw materials and finished products could be moved more quickly and cheaply than before. Improved transportation also allowed new ideas to spread quickly.

Now people do not have to stay in the some home for their entire life. Due to steam boats people could move to a different area.

Canals allowed the factories to be built further from the rivers and railroads made the distribution of goods more efficient.

With canals and railroads, good were able to be transported faster and easier.People were able to come in on boats or trains.

With the institution of canals and railroads, it was many times more efficient for factories to bring in fuel such as coal and send out products such as textiles, therefore making the factory a bigger profit.

Transportation improvements led to a greater population due to the better efficiency of the movement of goods. Goods could be traded across further distances faster than before, and people were allowed to take the railroads to come into the area to settle down and live.

Now that transportation was becoming popular and easy, the costs to travel were minimized and more people could afford to travel. The travel also helped those who were in need search for jobs, so it helped the economy as well.

Canals and Railroads led to products being distributed faster and in a simpler way.

It allowed people to get to farther away places faster and the travelers needed supplies for the long travel so more markets started to pop up everywere for those travelers.

Since factories were popping up everywhere, entrepreneurs needed faster ways to get around. The result was the building of railroads and canals. These new forms of transportation allowed people to travel faster and farther than they ever had before.

Railroads allowed workers to get to work if they lived far from the factories. They also transported goods to and from the factories, along with canals.

Railroads allowed the transportation of coal from coal mines to factories, which enabled greater productions in the factories.

** C. the influence of the ideas of Adam Smith, especially on the internal policies of Great Britain (44+105): **

Adam Smith argued that the free market should be allowed to operate and regulate business. He also stressed the importance of supply and demand. Adam Smith said the free market would produce more product and lower prices making it affordable for everyone, rich and poor. Adam Smith influenced the behavior of the market, income distribution, and future growth. He thought that the individual should be aloud to chase there own dreams and that telling them how to do things in n economy is a violation of there rights.

He believed that eventually the free makret would help everyone, not just the rich. He said it would produce more goods a lower prices making goods more affordable to everyone.

**D. new sources of energy such as coal and technological innovations such as the steam engine:**

Steam engines could work continuously at a rapid pace, much faster than a man or work horse. Steam also powered the huge factories efficiently and allowed them to be built away from rivers. The introduction of steam power fuelled primarily by coal, wider utilisation of water wheels and powered machinery (mainly in texile manufacturing) underpinned the dramatic increases in production capacity.

Coal, which was sometimes replaced by steam, was a very common and powerful means to power things. It was used in factories, trains, boats andything that it could be used in as a power source. coal and the steam engine made it easier to run the machines in factories that are neccesary to make them work fast.

The first evolutionary form of energy was steam. Steam powered engines worked more effeciently than any energy source before it. It allowed factories to be built anywhere and not just at a river source. Then came coal. Coal was burned it the place of wood is iron smelting factories. Using coal helped to produce better iron at a lower price. The steam engine was first used for coal and later was used in mills and also to pump water from deep workings.