Complex sentence: The landowners raised rents to unaffordable prices, or forcibly evicted entire villages, leading to mass exodus and an influx of former cotters into industrial centers, such as a burgeoning Glasgow.
Split into simpler sentences: The landowners raised rents to unaffordable prices, or forcibly evicted entire villages. This resulted in the mass exodus of peasants and cotters,, leading to an influx of former cotters into industrial centers, such as a burgeoning Glasgow.