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