What was life like in Great Britian before the industrial revolution??

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I have an essay due on friday about this and i really need help with this part specificly.The thing is i already wrote the essay , exept my teacher feels that im not doing well enough on the england part lol. All i need is life in GB before the industrial revolutioN. Please help me , thanks.
 
it was an agricultural based economy only small scale buissnesses and mostly self sufficiant farming.health and medecine was useless people believed in religious theorems for healing wounds people didn't know that germs and bacteria caused infection.Transportation was terrible it was either by horse or buy foot and the only half decent roads were in london.the death rate was 18 deaths per 1000 people and Britain had a slow growing population 1 out of every 10 babies died before their first birthdays,life expectancy was only about 30-40 years old.Education was only for the upperclass boys,and 80 percent of all people were illiterate.only upper class men could vote.hope i helped i put in as much as i could remember.
 
Britain was still mainly an agricultural society, with more people living in the country than in the town. In 1800, about 75% of the population lived in the country, and only 25% in the towns, by 1900 those percentages had exactly reversed, a big change.

Many people were employed in agricultural labour, and industries were much more home-based, with the textile industry in particularl consisting largely of people spinning and weaving in their own homes. Manufacturing was done much more on a small scale, rather than the mass production that became the norm with the industrial revolution.

Transport was very different, most people travelling on foot or by horse, no railways. Roads were generally very bad until conditions began to be improved in the late 18th century.
 
mostly manual labour, so when machinery was invented, farmers particularly didnt have to employ labourers however the machinery was expensive
 
Oh it was very very nice life. Do you want go back on that life, Take a on that time history book read it and think about it . Go that peroid. now you write down what your teacher told you.
 
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