Answer the focus questions from each section of the chapter.
What important developments led to increased agricultural production, and how did these changes affect peasants?
Why did the European population rise dramatically in the eighteenth century?
How and why did rural industry intensify in the eighteenth century?
What were guilds, and why did they become controversial in the eighteenth century?
How did colonial markets boost Europe’s economic and social development, and what conflicts and adversity did world trade entail?