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POPULATION GROWTH

• Social Changes led to population growth

• Children accounted for a high proportion of the total population

• Led to migration of people

THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION

• Began long before the 18th century

• Greatest benefit went to wealthy landowners• Enclosures

TRADE AND INVENTIVENESS

• Long period of commercial expansion

• Increasing demand for goods

• Increase in population and agricultural production + growth in trade and fascination with technology and innovation

BRITAIN AND CONTINENTAL EUROPE

• Britain had many advantages

• Highly developed commercial sector

• Economies in continental Europe experienced dynamic expansion