Practice question · Sort into groups
Organic or fossil-fuel economy?
Groups: Organic economy · Fossil-fuel economy
- Factory system with powered machinery
- Energy from wood, wind, and muscle
- Guild-based artisan production
- 80% of the population in agriculture
- Steam engines burning coal
Hints
- The dividing line is where the energy comes from.
- Recent photosynthesis and buried carbon are the two sources.
Show the answer
Organic economy: Energy from wood, wind, and muscle, 80% of the population in agriculture, Guild-based artisan production
Fossil-fuel economy: Steam engines burning coal, Factory system with powered machinery
Why
The dividing line is the energy source: organic economies run on recent photosynthesis; fossil-fuel economies tap millions of years of stored sunlight.
Practise The Pre-industrial Economy
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