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Grades 6, 7 and 8 - History - Middle School - The Agricultural Revolution
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Fertilizers played a major part in the Agricultural Revolution. The Agricultural Revolution supported unprecedented population growth, freeing up a significant percentage of the workforce, and thereby helped drive the Industrial Revolution.

Grades 6, 7 and 8 - History - Middle School - The Agricultural Revolution
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20 Questions

1. One of the 3 fields was always left...what?
2. Who did not suffer as a result of enclosure?
3. Who introduced the Norfolk four-course crop rotation?
4. Which was not true of the new crop rotation system?
5. Which county gave its name to a 'Four-course crop rotation' system?
6. What was one advantage of the old 3-field system?
7. Why was one field left fallow?
8. The old method of scattering seeds by hand was .......
9. By the early 1800s what had happened to the fields?
10. Who helped to produce healthier and heavier animals?
11. Which other historical event greatly helped farmers?
12. Before about 1750, farmers used what system?
13. Jethro Tull famously invented a horse-drawn…what?
14. Which crop was not rotated in the Norfolk system?
15. Who shared and spread new ideas?
16. Acts of Parliament of which year made enclosure compulsory?
17. Why did clay and lime come to be used on the land?
18. Jethro Tull's book of 1731 had what title?
19. Bakewell's methods were known as what?
20. Why did farmers need to produce more food?