HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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People were farming.
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People moved to the city.
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People began working in factories.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first main cause was the emergence of capitalism as an economic theory, since it helped wealthy individuals to start their own businesses. The next major cause was the expansion of European imperialism around the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Industrial Revolution transformed economies that had been based on agriculture and handicrafts into economies based on large-scale industry, mechanized manufacturing, and the factory system. New machines, new power sources, and new ways of organizing work made existing industries more productive and efficient.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term ‘Industrial Revolution’ stands for those developments and inventions which revolutionised the technique and organisation of production in the later half of the 18th century. This industrial revolution replaced the previous domestic system of production, by the new factory system.
Detailed explanation-4: -First Industrial Revolution: Coal in 1765. Second Industrial Revolution: Gas in 1870. Third Industrial Revolution: Electronics and Nuclear in 1969. Fourth Industrial Revolution: Internet and Renewable Energy in 2000.