and anything else they needed. Agriculture was in full effect and despite advancements as a civilisation, life for most of the population was not hugely dissimilar to ancient farmers of bygone times. A hierarchy between land owner and land worker was still prevalent because education was both expensive and scarce. There were only a small number of schools and university institutions, of which ordinary people were not permitted to attend. Manual labour was intensive and crucial, as humans or animals were the only source of power behind the machines available to improve productivity. Poverty was a constant possibility with both famine and agriculture being seasonal by nature. This image displays the average agricultural workman before the Industrial Revolution. His labour requires the necessary skills to manage the horses and carriage effectively. His other roles will include caring for the horses among other cultivation roles on the facility. This did not require a literate person, just someone who could follow instruction and physically work hard. Soon something would happen that would require the mass population to work a very different labours. 2. Industrial Revolution: changes to the class system. In 1781, James Watts perfected the steam engine, heat could be converted into movement, allowing the industrialisation of Great Britain. Once the machine of Industrialism started working, new class systems emerged. The middle class (consisting of Doctors, Lawyers and factory owners. Making money though the manifestation of consumerism.) And the working class (worked in the factories, mined materials for mass production or opened shops.) Perhaps the biggest change, was the industrial effect on agriculture; less and less people were required to work on farms as machines replaced most of their labour. This saw a surge in the number of people moving out of rural communities. In seventeen fifty; only fifteen percent of the population lived in towns or cities, contrastingly one hundred years later, fifty percent lived in towns or cities.>