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    The document summarizes factors that contributed to the Industrial Revolution beginning in Great Britain in the late 18th century. Great Britain had access to coal and cotton as raw materials, as well as colonies that provided markets and materials. A growing population moved to cities seeking work. Innovation like the steam engine in the 1700s helped drive transportation efficiency. Coal was a key energy source powering the textile industry's mechanization. By the early 19th century, Great Britain was mining massive amounts of coal and became a top textile manufacturer, demonstrating coal's importance to powering the Industrial Revolution.

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    The document summarizes factors that contributed to the Industrial Revolution beginning in Great Britain in the late 18th century. Great Britain had access to coal and cotton as raw materials, as well as colonies that provided markets and materials. A growing population moved to cities seeking work. Innovation like the steam engine in the 1700s helped drive transportation efficiency. Coal was a key energy source powering the textile industry's mechanization. By the early 19th century, Great Britain was mining massive amounts of coal and became a top textile manufacturer, demonstrating coal's importance to powering the Industrial Revolution.

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    BIG HISTORY 2

    18th Century Industrial Revolution: [1760-1840]


    Impact of Great Britain and the Beginning of the Anthropocene

    To fully understand what the Industrial Revolution is all about and to answer the question Why
    Great Britain? here are excerpts from a scholarly reading available through one BHP activity.
    Try to uncover the answers.

    From the Big History Project


    Activity/Article Review

    The Industrial Revolution changed how goods more industrialized.


    were produced and traded, and how
    governments supported these economic efforts. In their book The Human Web,
    Please be clarified that humans have been historians J. R. and William H. McNeill
    argued that several factors made the
    manufacturing things for a very long time.
    Industrial Revolution possible. First,
    However, before the Industrial Revolution began
    vast amounts of energy were
    in the mid-eighteenth century, individual
    unleashed, in the form of burning fossil
    craftsmen and women often created products fuels, like coal. Capital (money) was
    (such as cloth textiles) in their homes. There becoming more concentrated. Certain
    were also some regions of the world that were people and companies were becoming
    better known for producing quality items for sale richer and able to create large
    both at home and abroad. For example, Belgium businesses. Finally, trade connections
    was a center of woolen products during Europe’s were growing stronger through
    Medieval Period; India had a reputation for transportation innovations such as
    producing high quality cotton fabrics; and China canals and turnpikes (like early
    had long been the center of silk production. But highways), and later, steamships.
    what made production during the Industrial More efficient transportation helped
    transform the production and
    Revolution different? Between 1750 and 1914,
    distribution of goods — especially in
    there was a global shift on how goods were
    the Northern Hemisphere. All of these
    manufactured. To some extent, these changes factors — fossil fuels, money to invest
    happened across the world — from Europe and in innovations, and advances in
    the Americas to Asia. During this 164-year transportation — were present in
    period, each of these regions became much Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

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    BIG HISTORY 2

    Coal and cotton were the raw materials necessary for industrialization. Great Britain had
    access to both. They also had colonies around the world — colonies that could provide both
    raw materials and markets to buy British manufactured goods. Finally, due to the enclosure
    movement in the late eighteenth century, Great Britain had a growing population of people
    moving from rural areas (countryside) to urban areas (cities) in need of employment. As if
    these factors weren’t enough to create a revolution in manufacturing, the British had two
    additional reasons for industrialization: innovation and mercantilism. One innovation that
    many historians point to as being the catalyst — cause — for the Industrial Revolution is the
    invention of the steam engine in 1698 by Thomas Savery, an English engineer. The steam
    engine was first used to pump water out of coal mines. However, after years of improving
    upon the invention, it was eventually adapted and used for tugboats (1736), paddleboats
    (1788), steamships (1814), and railroad engines (1825). Obviously, the steam engine helped
    to make transportation more efficient, but it was also used to transform the textile industry.

    Coal was also an important raw material that drove the


    Industrial Revolution. Coal allowed the textile industry to
    become mechanized — for machines to be used on a large scale.
    This ultimately allowed Great Britain to become the top
    manufacturer of textiles. To understand how important coal was to
    the Industrial Revolution, look at the information below. Here is how
    much coal was mined in Great Britain in that time period:

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