Population

• Increase in population


  Strain on the supply of food
• Strain on the supply of food


  Difficult to meet the rising demand
• Beneficiaries of population increase

  • Wealthier farmers and landowners
• Agricultural prices and income from farming rose

  Society became more polarised
• Society becoming more polarised


  Undermined traditional ideals of good lordship and social responsibility
• Upper strata of society became richer


  The poor became poorer