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Title: the industrial revolution
Description: the industrial revolution in Great Britain high school level

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Chap 1: The industrial revolution
in Great Britain
Reminder:
Great Britain (England, Wales, Scotland)→United kingdom (+Ireland)

Great Britain the cradle(=berçeau) the Industrial Revolution




Industrial Revolution=process that deeply transformed Ep economies and societies


workshops→factories



Production increase



Agrarian→industrial (social structure)

Great Britain played a key role in this period


Cradle of the 1st IR 1760-1840/ 1st country to benefit it



English resources: archives/novels (Charles Dickens)

Natural resources
French traduction: coal=charbon

copper=cuivre

lead=plomb manganese=mangarèse

tin=étain

grain=céréales

zinc=zinc

steam=vapeur



Metals: South-West, South of Wales, North and in Scotland



Import resources from the colonies (spices/silk India, coffee US, wood GB)





Raw materials



Cheap workforce



Customers for British products



Control over the Global Trade

British=leaders in the stage of globalization

improvements
1
...
Steam engine: James Watt
3
...
British nobleman→design/Parliament→pass an act, money+promote

Economic/demographic consequences
In the 18th century
1
...
Prices got cheaper→easier access for families to basic food
3
Title: the industrial revolution
Description: the industrial revolution in Great Britain high school level