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Title: the industrial revolution
Description: the industrial revolution in Great Britain high school level
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
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Industrial Revolution=process that deeply transformed Ep economies and societies
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workshops→factories
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Production increase
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Agrarian→industrial (social structure)
Great Britain played a key role in this period
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Cradle of the 1st IR 1760-1840/ 1st country to benefit it
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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
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Metals: South-West, South of Wales, North and in Scotland
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Import resources from the colonies (spices/silk India, coffee US, wood GB)
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Raw materials
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Cheap workforce
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Customers for British products
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Control over the Global Trade
British=leaders in the stage of globalization
improvements
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Steam engine: James Watt
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British nobleman→design/Parliament→pass an act, money+promote
Economic/demographic consequences
In the 18th century
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Prices got cheaper→easier access for families to basic food
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Title: the industrial revolution
Description: the industrial revolution in Great Britain high school level
Description: the industrial revolution in Great Britain high school level