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U2 Extension Vocab
Unit 2 Global History Extension
Term | Definition |
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Political Revolutions | a great change in government, usually with an overthrow (take over/throw out) of a government (examples are the French Revolution and the American Revolution) |
Non-Political Revolutions | a great change in technology or ideas (such as the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution) |
Agricultural Revolution | The transformation of agriculture from traditional medieval farming to more productive, efficient, and mechanical methods of farming through scientific innovation and new techniques |
Industrial Revolution | Time when production of goods shifted from hand production methods to complex machines and factories began to use the assembly line |
Manufacturing | The process of making a large number of something |
Laborer | A description for someone who works |
Manufactured goods | a good that is produced mainly by the application of labour and capital to raw materials to make a finished product to sell |
Natural resources | Materials the occur in nature and can be used for economic gain (to make money) like forests, water, fertile land, oil, or coal (aka raw material) |
Urbanization | The process of making an area more city-like or many people moving to one area to make a big city |
Assembly Line | a production process that breaks the manufacture of a good into steps that are completed in a pre-defined sequence |
Nationalism | strong feelings of support for one's nation with the idea that your country's interests are superior |