The industrial revolution People earned wealth through mainly agriculture- 98 % of people For 1000s of years Modern times Stock market, investing, land Only 2 % of Austrians are farmers Why- an industrial revolution within agriculture occurred big time (aka technological revolution) Areas such as Asia; ________, China, had large amounts of land as well as, therefore more farmland India had the and still has the second- largest population More countries- France, Russia, Ukraine (said to have the best farmland) The industrial revolution surprisingly began in Britain.