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world civ mcmahan
The industrial revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the disadvantages of farming in the middle ages? | land use was inefficient and farmers didn't experiment with new farming methods |
| what forced people of the middle ages to change their farming methods? | their population was growing so they needed more food and the french blockade made it so their is no corn |
| what was the enclosure movement? | a movement where wealthy landlords forced in common pastures and experimented with new farming methods |
| what was an effect of the enclosure movement? | villages lost their commonlands and poitical power so peasants became poorer |
| what is crop rotation? | fields that were depleated of nutrients by one crop but were replenished by planting different crops |
| what is capitalism? | a new economic system based on supply and demand |
| what is the cottage industry? | where merchants acted as coordinators between buyers and sellers while various groups of skilled rural workers manufactured cotton and woolen cloth |
| what are textiles? | fabric or cloth woven from cloth or thread |
| what were three of the roles a merchant had? | supplied materials,took supplies from spinning cottage to weaving cottage to dying cottage, sell finished item for more than spent on it |
| what is capitalism based on? | a private ownership, free competition, and profit |
| what three machines improved spinning? | spinning jenny, waterframe, and spinning mule |
| how does the steam engine work? | steam is forced from high to low pressure and produces power |
| who invented the steam engine in 1765? | james watt |
| what were factory machinery, farming tools, and railways made of? | iron |
| what was the effect of iron and coal production? | britain produced more iron than all other countries combined |
| what was the need for better transportation? | pre-industrial society used horses, mules, and dirt roads |
| what was built in effect of better transportation? | stone and eventually asphault roads were built, canals were built, railroads were built |
| what was some effects of railroads? | were expanded rapidly throughout britain, cheaper form of transportation than horses,increased population |
| why did britain leed industrial revolution? | perfect climate, plenty of natural resources such as iron and coal, seperation from european countries kept them from war |
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