British Agricultural Revolution far apart. Alternately seeds could be laboriously planted one by one using a hoe and/or a shovel. Cutting down on wasted seed was important because the yield of seeds harvested to seeds planted at that time was around four or five. The seed drill was introduced from China to Italy in the mid-16th century where it was patented by the Venetian Senate. Jethro Tull invented an improved seed drill in 1701. It was a mechanical seeder which distributed seeds evenly across a plot of land and at the correct depth. Tull's seed drill was very expensive and fragile and therefore
Anno 1701 Anno 1701 Anno 1701, also marketed as 1701 A.D., is a real-time strategy and city building video game, part of the "Anno" series. It is developed by Related Designs and published by Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software. It revolves around building and maintaining an 18th-century colony in the "New World". With a budget of €10 million, it was the most expensive German game ever produced by 2006. It is the sequel to "Anno 1602" and "Anno 1503" and was followed by "Anno 1404", which is known in the United States as "Dawn of Discovery", "Anno 2070", "Anno 2205" and Anno 1800".