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Industrial Revolution | A shift from making goods by hand to making them by machine. |
Agricultural Revolution | A rural change that involved better farming and breeding methods. |
Enclosure | A fenced in or hedged in field created by wealthy British landowners. |
Crop rotation | A system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertility of the land. |
Selective breeding | A practice of only allowing the best animals to breed with one another in order to produce larger offspring. |
Urbanization | This term refers to the growth of cities. |
Factors of production | The resources, including land, labor, and capital, that are needed to produce goods and services. |
Textile | A cotton, wool, or linen product that was produced by the cottage industries and later factories. |
Factory | A large building in which machinery is used to manufacture goods. |
Entrepreneur | A person who organizes, manages, or takes on the risks of a business. |