HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Question
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Only Great Britain had fully industrialized.
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All of Western Europe was industrialized.
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Only some countries and regions were industrialized.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The textile industry was the first to use modern production methods, and textiles became the dominant industry in terms of employment, value of output, and capital invested.
Detailed explanation-2: -Industrial Revolution in Europe: The industrial revolution began in Great Britain in the late 1770s before spreading to the rest of Europe. The first European countries to be industrialized after England were Belgium, France and the German states. What is this? The rest of Europe didn’t industrialize until after 1850.
Detailed explanation-3: -Two Englishmen, William and John Cockerill, brought the Industrial Revolution to Belgium by developing machine shops at Liège (c. 1807), and Belgium became the first country in continental Europe to be transformed economically.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the Industrial Revolution, Europe experi-enced a shift from a traditional, labor-intensive econ-omy based on farming and handicrafts to a more capital-intensive economy based on manufacturing by machines, specialized labor, and industrial factories.