農業革命(のうぎょうかくめい)

のうぎょうかくめい
noun
agricultural revolution
history
1. agricultural revolution
A major historical transformation in farming methods and productivity. The term refers both to the Neolithic shift from foraging to farming and to later leaps such as the 18th-century improvements in European agriculture.
農業革命(のうぎょうかくめい)で人口(じんこう)が増(ふ)えた。
The agricultural revolution caused the population to grow.
農業革命(のうぎょうかくめい)によって人々(ひとびと)は定住(ていじゅう)するようになった。
Through the agricultural revolution, people came to settle in fixed places.
狩猟(しゅりょう)中心(ちゅうしん)の生活(せいかつ)から農業(のうぎょう)中心(ちゅうしん)の社会(しゃかい)への転換(てんかん)は、農業革命(のうぎょうかくめい)と呼(よ)ばれる。
The shift from a hunting-centered life to a farming-centered society is called the agricultural revolution.

A term from history and the social sciences. It can denote the prehistoric birth of farming or any later transformation that sharply raised agricultural output.

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Compare: 産業(さんぎょう)革命(かくめい) (the Industrial Revolution)
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