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Most people lived by subsistence farming

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Most people lived by subsistence farming

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They divided up land to grow crops and sharing land for grazing animals. The methods of farming the land had not changed from generation to generation.

People and livestock like horses or oxen were the only form of power, which meant work like ploughing was time consuming and labour-intensive. Farm work was dependant on the growing seasons.

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Travel was difficult because there were few roads and little in the way of public transport.

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Travel was difficult because there were few roads and little in the way of public transport.

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As a result, people lived and worked on land near where they were born – often living in the same settlement all their lives because they couldn’t afford to leave and had nowhere else to go.

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Using horses and bulls for everyday travel and transport was the mainstay

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Before the Industrial Revolution, most people lived in rural areas where they had cleaner air and better conditions.

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Before the Industrial Revolution, most people lived in rural areas where they had cleaner air and better conditions.

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The common diet was limited to the food that people could grow or catch locally. This had an effect on health as diets could be very restricted and subject to shortages when harvests failed.

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Shepherding was a major source of livelihood before the Industrial revolution changed living conditions

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In some cases, people, mostly women, would make some extra income by making cloth in their own homes.

They would use simple spinning wheels to spin yarns and threads, which they would then weave on handlooms. Flax was grown to make linen, and sheep were kept to provide wool.

This system is called the domestic system or cottage system because it involved people making cloth in their own homes

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Religion was a very important influence in rural, pre-industrial society, and provided stability and structure. 

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Religion was a very important influence in rural, pre-industrial society, and provided stability and structure. 

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The church provided essential services such as weddings, baptisms, and funerals, and also served as a local court dealing with moral or social offenses in the community.