Chapter 17

Destiny Williams

Professor Patricia Andrews 

World History 2

March 2018

                                                    Chapter 17: Revolutions of Industrialization
  

• Industrial Britain is the dirt, smoke, and pollution of early industrial societies are vividly conveyed in this nineteenth-century engraving of a copper foundry in wales.
• The industrial revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820- 1840. 
•  The growth of population was an emerging energy crisis, most pronounced in Western Europe, China, and Japan, as wood and charcoal, the major industrial fuels, became scarcer and their prices rise.
•  Industrial Revolution was a huge breakthrough.
•  Been a long source of great controversy among scholars.
•  Historians have views that suggest that Europe was destined to lead the way to modern economic life.
•  Other places in the world have experienced time of great technological and scientific flourishing.
• China was clearly the world leader in technological innovations.
• Europe was not alone in capacity for innovation.
• Europe enjoys economic advantages.