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__Agricultural Revolution 1750__ The agricultural revolution was a milestone in human development, and changed the lives of the people of Europe with more food and created job opportunities. There were many aspects and stages of the agricultural revolution including the elimination of fallow land, enclosure, crop rotation, and many other things. Charles Townsend was a major influence during this time because of his idea of crop rotation. This was when crops were rotated from field to field after each season. On one of the fields was a crop that would give nitrogen back to the soil, so now instead of only having two fields of crops, there were now three. This gave farmers a larger amount of crops, which meant they got more money, and the buyers were given more product. Another development was enclosure meaning that agriculturalists needed to consolidate their scattered holdings in to compact, fenced-in fields in order to farm more effectively. In the years to come, many new ideas and inventions would come about and a larger food supply would be available to the people of Europe, thanks to the agricultural revolution.