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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the reaping machine

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the machine used for harvesting wheat not the name of the ferocious grain [Wrestler in a ring holding belts and grain]

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based wrestler.. check out this picture, reaping machine here's

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our question the image reflects which of the following 19th century development

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and here are your potential answers....[mumbles]

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...So we've got an advertisement for a machine that makes

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it easier to reap or harvest wheat what could this reflect well it's not option [Reaping machine harvesting]

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A) that's for sure the picture shows a machine that harvest wheat and wheat was

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never used in textile manufacturing not like people ever wore clothes made out [People wearing bread for clothes]

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of bread how crummy would that be D) isn't a totally awful answer but that

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still doesn't make it correct technological innovations and farming

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did make it way easier for us to exploit our natural resources but this reaping [Factory with smoke bellowing into the air]

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machine was far from the main culprit and really the war against our own

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planet didn't seriously get cooking until the 20th century C) isn't [The Rock serving food in a crop field]

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completely crazy either the mechanization of farming did

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eventually make sharecroppers obsolete but again that was more of a 20th

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century thing B) is our best answer this go around the global marketing

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communications revolution allowed all sorts of new ideas from around the world [Satellite floating in space and man on a phone]

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to be shared it led to some pretty groundbreaking technological innovations in both

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American agriculture and manufacturing and thankfully the spread of

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communication was much more accurate than a game of telephone..[Man wearing a suit talking to a factory worker]

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