Western Civilization II / Unit 9 WC2 0803 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Agricultural Revolution: Rotation, Tools, Enclosure
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The idea
The anchor has no section on farming. The witness supplies it: the Norfolk four-course rotation, turnips and clover replacing the fallow year; Bakewell's selective breeding; and enclosure turning open fields into consolidated, capitalist farms with more food from fewer hands.
In practice
More calories per field, fewer people needed to grow them.
Where people slip
This entry rests on the witness texts, not the anchor.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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