Agricultural Revolution & Enclosures
Changes in land tenure, enclosure, selective breeding, crop rotation, and market-oriented farming that raised productivity and displaced labor.
Core metadata
- ID: agricultural_revolution_enclosures
- Era: Industrial
- First known date: 1700 (century)
- Region: Britain and northwestern Europe
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
- Crop Rotation (Three-Field System) (crop_rotation_three_field)
- Mercantilism Economic Theory (mercantilism_economic_theory)
- Selective Seed Saving (selective_seed_saving)
Dependents
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- Agricultural Revolution (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, textbook) • Supports: node
Locator: Britannica describes the Agricultural Revolution as a gradual transformation that began in Britain in the 18th century and included enclosure/reallocation of land, selective breeding, new crops, and crop-rotation systems.
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 3
- Average edge confidence: 68%
- Prerequisite sources: 0
- expert_inference: 3
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crop Rotation (Three-Field System) (crop_rotation_three_field) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Crop Rotation (Three-Field System) provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
| Selective Seed Saving (selective_seed_saving) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Selective Seed Saving provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
| Mercantilism Economic Theory (mercantilism_economic_theory) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Mercantilism Economic Theory provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
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