The Industrial Revolution began in England due to its strong central bank and large working class and easy access to what natural resource?
What is coal?
These companies encouraged investment and began to be used in Western Europe in the 1600s, they are still common today.
What are joint stock companies?
This new form of overseas transportation, which expanded rapidly during the Industrial Revolution, led to cheaper shipping and easier migration.
What are steamships?
This revolution in Japan overthrew the Tokugawa and put the country on a path of economic reform and industrialization.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
During this era new methods in the production of steel, chemicals, and electricity were discovered.
What is the "second industrial revolution"?
The founder of the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint Lourveture?
This former world power industrializes too little and too late with the Tanzimat Reforms.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This empire, founded by Shaka through unification of smaller chiefdoms, was one of the most successful new states in Africa in the 19th century, it was eventually defeated by the British.
What is the Zulu Nation?
Many Indians, including Mohandas Gandhi, spent time as temporary migrant laborers in this British territorial holding in Africa as well as being a settler colony.
What is South Africa?