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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.
農業革命で人口が増えた。
The agricultural revolution caused the population to grow.
農業革命によって人々は定住するようになった。
Through the agricultural revolution, people came to settle in fixed places.
狩猟中心の生活から農業中心の社会への転換は、農業革命と呼ばれる。
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.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 農業革命が起こる: an agricultural revolution occurs
- 緑の革命: the Green Revolution — the 20th-century surge in crop yields from new varieties and methods
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 産業革命: the Industrial Revolution — the parallel transformation in manufacturing