12th And 13th Century Analysis

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The four factors that played a role in the economic boom in the 12th and 13th century were as follows: agricultural revolution, expansion of cities, advances in transportation networks and the creation of new business techniques. The agricultural revolution came with some advantages and disadvantage. One advantage of the agricultural revolution is that it allowed the control of food because if you grow and produce it than you have a better chance of not starving and a disadvantage to the revolution is that in order to maintain your production and continue to feed people than you literally have to change the environment and we all know that is not an easy task. Agricultural revolution basically provided people the opportunity to eat more which

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