write five features of proto industrialization?
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1. Production was not based on factories.
2. Large scale home based production for international market.
3. Merchants move to country side and supplied money for artisans to
produced for international market.
4. It provided alternative source of income.
5. Income from pro-industrial production supplemented their shrinking
income from.
6. Helped in fuller use of their family labour resources.
7. Close relationship.
Answer:
1. Even before factories began to dot the landscape in England and Europe there was large scale industrial production for an international market which was not based on factories. This phase of industrialization is known as proto-industrialization.
2. Merchants from the town in Europe began moving to the countryside, supplying money to peasants and artisans, persuading them to produce for an international market.
3. With the expansion of world trade and the acquisition of colonies in different parts of the world, the demand for goods began to increase.
4. But merchants could not expand production with in towns. This was because; here urban crafts and trade guilds were powerful.
5. In the countryside poor peasants and artisans began working for merchants. This was a time when open field were disappearing and commons were being enclosed.