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Quick RecallWhat is proto-industrialisation?
- Proto-industrialisation refers to the phase of large-scale industrial production for international markets that existed before factories were established.
- In this system, merchants from European towns moved to the countryside and gave advances to peasants and artisans to produce goods for them.
- Goods were produced within family farms and rural households rather than in factories, and merchants controlled the entire network of commercial exchanges.