Factors that Led to the Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution The shift of production from simple hand tools to complex machines and from human and animal power to steam power.

I. The Agricultural Revolution New methods 1. mixing soils 2. crop rotation New Technology: seed drill Enclosures: larger land to cultivate more efficiently.

Seed drill

The Agricultural Revolution New help: Better breeds of horses, sheep and other cattle Farm journals

The Agricultural Revolution Human Costs: Farm laborers and small farmers lost their jobs and left their villages Farmers became new labor force for the factories

II. Population Explosion Decrease in death rates Agricultural Revolution reduced the risk of famine Disease faded away with improved hygiene and sanitation Improvement of medical care

III. Energy Revolution Old sources of energy: people & cattle New sources of energy: water mills and windmills Use of coal The development of the STEAM ENGINE

Watermill Windmill