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1st Industrial Revolution - Coggle Diagram
1st Industrial Revolution
Recap: Important outcomes
Laid the foundation of the modern world
Transformed economic production and distripution
political systems, social institutions, values, intellectual and cultural life forever changed
Industrial Revolution in Europe
England: Late 18th Century
Why England?
Shifted from Agricultural to Industrial and commercial economy
Movement to cities
population booms
Expansion of empire and naval power
Access to foreign markets
Access to Cheap Indian Cotton
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Access to Natural resources
Coal
Steam Engine
Improvements in agriculture, abundant coal + iron, capital
Changes on the continent (turn of the 19th)
Government played a role in economics
Unlike England: where individual industrialists were in charge