HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Question
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England was the most powerful nation in the world
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It wasn’t; history has unfairly given England credit for the Industrial Revolution
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England had an abundance of natural resources such as coal, iron ore, and waterways where water wheels and steam engines could be built
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England was centrally located to many areas like France, Germany, Spain, and Ireland, giving them an advantage to bring in resources and talent from many places
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Detailed explanation-1: -Britain had cheap energy with its abundant supply of coal, and labour was relatively expensive, so inventors and investors alike were lured by the possibility of profit if machines could be made that ran on coal and saved labour. In the Industrial Revolution the steam engine first powered pumps in mines.
Detailed explanation-2: -Another major reason why the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain was that it had an abundant supply of what economists call the three “factors of production". These factors of production are land, labor, and capital.
Detailed explanation-3: -Three reasons that led to the Industrial Revolution was the emergence of capitalism, European imperialism, and The Agricultural Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, coal was England’s richest natural resource, meeting most of the nation’s requirement for energy.