Open Door Team
Open Door Web Site: The Agricultural Revolution
Teacher-contributed content on topics related to the agricultural revolution, such as four-field crop rotation, the seed drill, selective breeding of livestock, and the impact on the Industrial Revolution.
Flow of History
Flow of History: The Birth of Agriculture and Its Effects
Why was the birth of agriculture such an important development in the prehistoric times? This question is answered in an easy-to-understand overview. The effects of agriculture are also mapped out on a flow chart for visual analysis.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Revolution in Agriculture
Comprehensive look at the United States agricultural revolution in the late 1800s. Discover the impact it had on the development of the country.
BBC
Bbc: H2g2: The Neolithic Revolution
A helpful summation of the key features of the agriculture revolution of the Neolithic Age: population growth, specialization, trade, security, government, and disease.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Human Geography: Agricultural Geography
AP Human Geography course unit on Agricultural Geography discusses industrial farming, global agriculture and the green revolution.
Other
Goteborg University: The Rise of Neolithic Agriculture [Pdf]
The Rise of Neolithic Agriculture examines reasons why the Neolithic converted to an agricultural people and why agriculture, though initially increasing the welfare of people's lives, deteriorated the quality of living.
Northwestern University
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences: Second Industrial Revolution [Pdf]
A lengthy essay on the Second Industrial Revolution in Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author looks at seven major aspects of technology that were affected by the revolution and makes...
Other
Saudi Aramco World: Beginning of the End for Hunter Gatherers
Article details the remarkable archaeological discoveries in a region of Turkey where excavations at a Neolithic site point to a society in transition, from nomadic to agricultural.
Other
Big History Project: Chapter 5: The Modern Revolution and the Future
Big History Project, Chapter 5, picks up after the development of agriculture and the rise of cities and powerful civilizations and looks at industrialization, transportation and modern global interactions of today and asks, "what next?".
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association for Advancement of Science: The Slow Birth of Agriculture
An article which describes the slow process of crop cultivation. The author argues that crop cultivation and village life may not have been connected.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Revolution in Agriculture
Article outlining the extraordinary achievements in agriculture during the 1800s.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Agriculture and Human Population Growth
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Reveals how human population growth has paralleled advances in agriculture, such as the advent of agriculture, and the onset of the Green Revolution.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Agriculture Rules the South
The essay describes the devlopment of the Southern colonies as agricultural centers and the cultural aspects associated with rural, agricultural life.
A&E Television
History.com: How the South Helped Win the American Revolution
British commanders attempted to reverse their floundering fortunes by launching a campaign in the South. There the British would find not just crops such as tobacco, rice and indigo that were vital to their economy, but stronger Loyalist...
Other
Libcom: Climate, Class, and the Neolithic Revolution
This is the first in a series of articles about food under global warming. This article takes a long view of the relationship between climate, agriculture, and class society.
Country Studies US
Country Studies: Revolution in Agriculture
This site describes how even though industry was expanding in the U.S., agriculture still remained the most important occupational sector in the US. As the population grew, farmers in the U.S. had to find ways to meet the explosive...
University of Missouri
Sociology Timeline: The Agricultural Revolution
A sociology timeline showing the evolution of societies from hunter-gatherer societies to the information revolution.
Other
The Industrial Revolution: Changes in Society
A guided website which covers the major aspects of the Industrial Revolution from about 1750 until 1830. Areas such as industry, agriculture are explored.
Other
Modern World History: Pre Industrial Society
In this textbook unit, students learn about what society and the standard of living were like prior to the Industrial Revolution. The average peasant grew their food and kept farm animals. Change took place much more slowly, but the rate...
Other
International World History: Agriculture and the Origins of Civilization
Read here about the Neolithic Revolution and the development of early Stone Age humans into an Agrarian society. Causes of the agrarian transformation are addressed as well as the domestication of plants and animals. The spread of the...
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Industrial Revolution
Multi media learning module with videos for students and teachers to learn about the Industrial Revolution and how America moved from and agricultural society to an urban machine-based production in the 19th Century.
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Clemson University: British Industrial Revolution
Lecture notes for a class on the Industrial Revolution provide an overview of the transition of the British economy from a predominantly agricultural one to an industrial society.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Industrial Revolution Inventions
The Industrial Revolution is a phrase that encompasses the massive changes in agriculture and manufacturing processes during the 18th and 19th centuries that transformed the United States from an agricultural to an industrial society....
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: Anglo American Colonization in Texas: Agriculture
Outlines the agricultural differences between the Upper and Lower South of Texas prior to the Civil War.