Dawn of the Industrial Age
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Dawn of the Industrial
Age
Dawn of the Industrial Age
Learning Points
• Growth of population, cities, and urban
migration
• Technological changes led to social
economic and cultural change
Dawn of the Industrial Age
From the beginning of civilization to 1750,
most people lived on small farms.
This changed with the Industrial
Revolution.
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1750
People make their own clothes & food.
Few ever left their home villages
Almost no one went overseas
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The “West” was the
first to industrialize:
Then:
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Britain
USA
Germany
France
Now:
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Russia
Japan
Taiwan
Israel
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Starting in 1700
the Agricultural
Revolution began
• Levees to reclaim
lands from the sea
• Fertilizer
• Crop rotation
• Seed drill
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Name 3 industrialized nations.
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What were 2 reforms of the
Agricultural Revolution?
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Rich landowners
“enclose” the land
– buy out the
peasants.
Larger fields were
worked more
efficiently
Jobless peasants
migrated to cities
to look for work.
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Britain’s population
almost doubled from
1700 to 1800
5 million 9 million
No famine because of
extra food
People eat more food
so they were
healthier.
Better hygiene,
sanitation, and
medicine
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Scottish engineer
James Watt
improves the
steam engine.
Improvements
allow it to be used
to power factories,
trains, and boats.
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Using hot-burning
coal to “smelt” iron
– to make it more
pure – resulted in
high quality, strong
iron machines that
could be used in
the new steam
engines.
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Who is famous for improving the
steam engine?
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Iron used for
bridges, trains,
buildings and
eventually, ships.
With an abundance
of coal and iron,
Britain took the
lead in world
technology.