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By the 18th Century, the existing systems and techniques used in agriculture were no longer sufficient to feed a rapidly increasing population. Subsistence farming was not enough for a country whose people were living, in ever greater numbers, in towns and cities. Urbanisation meant that as more people lived in cities and towns, instead of on the land, farming would have to become more efficient. The old system would have to change to fuel the …

…would have learnt nothing and made no advancement in farming, and therefore would not have grown into the thriving industrial nation we became. Without the Agricultural Revolution, the cycle of expansion and agricultural advancement would never have started, and the inefficient 'Open Field' system might have endured. The Agricultural Revolution almost completely wiped out the problems of the past, leaving us with the well-organised and structured system of farming that has continued to this day.