Citizens of different towns were subsistence farmer, their family survives on crops.
As they got into the later 1600's the Encloser Movement went on. It was that any open land was open to anyone who wanted it to farm and it carried on until the 1700's. Because smaller land owners took small farmers land they moved into the cities to find work and food. The farmers were looking for new ways to farm so people were coming up with more efficient ways to farm.
A man named Jerthro Toll that when people were seeding their lands that alot of the seed was getting wasted so he invented a thing called the seed drill, which planted seeds in strait rows.
Charles Townson copied a dutch idea called crop rotations.
Asking for improvements in production. Get it with new plows. Now horsepowered and developed a replacable plow blade.
Cities fighting with a bunch of people looking for jobs.
Natural resources are high in Great Britain - iron, coal, and cotton. Also a lot of open land to grow crops on. A lot of workers. - Factors Of Production.
They have a lot of rivers. - transportation, food, water mills for power. - Advantages
Disadvantages - floods and droughts
Revolutions started in Great Britain.
Not all big cities had rivers running through them.
Textile Industries - make clothes, bed sheets
One of the first factories was a cotton and silk factory. People start working for money.
Steam engines are now being used. Steam is a source of power. Transportation and communication is effected. The news and information for the ideas to spread is almost doubled.
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