History GCSE

Agricultural transformation

What Agricultural transformation means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.

Definition of Agricultural transformation

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Changes such as the enclosure of land and the shift from arable to sheep farming, which required fewer labourers and led to rural unemployment.

Pearson Edexcel · Option B4: Key topic 3: Elizabethan society in the Age of Exploration, 1558–88 - 2 The ‘problem’ of the poor (study guide)

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Option B4: Key topic 3: Elizabethan society in the Age of Exploration, 1558–88 - 2 The ‘problem’ of the poor (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)

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