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- - - - large amounts and easily accessible coal supplies, helped Britain with technological inventions such as steam power
    - - colonisation of ¼ of the world’s population, a dominant navy meant that materials could be more easily traded
    - - prolonged period without political or social conflict increased stability and growth of business
    - - increased global naval presence of the British empire helped the British companies trade with each other in relative safety, creating low interest rates (cheap to borrow money to start a business)
    - - 1st Phase:
        
        competition with other European powers establish vast overseas territories (1600s-1800s)
      - 2nd Phase:
        
        a series of wars fought between the European powers where Britain’s naval strength les to their dominance (1700-1900s)
  - - - Aristocracy
        
        Usually very rich
        
        They went to elite schools and some went to university
        
        They has many servants in the house
      - Middle Class
        
        aspired to join the upper class
        
        lived in houses in suburbs
        
        at least had 1 house servant
      - Poor
        
        they lived in small slumped houses
        
        crime in the slums were rife
        
        they had to work very hard for minimum wage
  - - - Children were made to work with machinery to earn money for their poor families
      - Their pay were about 20% of the full adult wage
- - - - The belief all nations should build and maintain strong armed forces so that they are prepare against attack or promote national interests
    - - Where military support was promised if one member was attacked by a member of an opposition was attacked
      - Two Major Alliances:
        
        Triple Entente: Britain 🇬🇧 France 🇫🇷 and Russia 🇷🇺
        
        Triple Alliance: Germany 🇩🇪 , Austria-Hungary, Italy 🇮🇹
      - Additionally:
      - Great Britain, signed a treaty to protect Belgium
      - Great Britain - signed a treaty with Japan
      - Russia - friends with Serbia (Slavic Language)
      - Russia - supported Bosnian independence from Austria-Hungary
      - Therefore a conflict between Bosnia and Austria-Hungary would lead to conflict between the alliances
    - - Where a country increases its power by gaining control over new territories to create an enemy
    - - A sense of pride in, and a love of one's nation
        It grows out of an understanding of common goals and beliefs between the people of a nation, culture, history, etc.
    - - June 18th 1914 was when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo Bosnia
      - what started WW1