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| The period from the mid-seventeenth century on in Europe during which great agricultural progress was made and the fallow was gradually eliminated. |
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| Forced migration of millions of Africans to work in servitude during the eighteenth century. |
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| The open meadows maintained by villages for public use. |
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| "domestic industry," a stage of rural industrial development with wage workers. |
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| People of Spanish blood born in America. |
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| The system by which farmers would rotate the types of crops grown in each field as to not deplete the soil of its natural resources. |
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| A system which allowed a planter or rancher to keep his workers/slaves in perpetual debt bondage by periodically advancing food, shelter, and a little money. |
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| Based on the writings of Adam Smith, it is the belief in free trade and competition. |
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| The idea to enclose individual share of the pastures as a way of farming more effectively. |
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| The foods eaten by a desperate population- chestnuts, bark, dandelions and grass- in attempts to escape starvation. |
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| System of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state. |
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| The offspring of spanish men and Indian women. |
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| The result of the English desire to increase both military power and private wealth. |
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| A system of village farming developed by peasants where the land was divided into several largfe fields. |
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| The transformation of large number of small peasant farmera into landless rural wage earners. |
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| Term used to describe the 18th century rural industry. |
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