Vocabulary
A method of observation, measurement, and experiment and the creation, testing and rethinking of hypotheses.
What is the Scientific Method?
These 3 field of study saw major advancements in the Scientific Rev.
What is astronomy, anatomy and physics?
What are some negative consequences of the Industrial Revolution?
Environmental damages, poor working conditions, expansion of slavery, economic inequality
Production of what did the agrarian revolution mainly affect?
Food
This invention is used to till soil in fields. It is commonly pulled by a work animal.
What is the plow/plough?
A group of people with a common cultural background. They usually have a similar language and religion.
What is a nation?
When did the Scientific Revolution start?
1543-1687
What are some positive consequences of the Industrial Revolution?
Some positive consequences include more industrial production and better farming, transport, and other technology.
When did the Agrarian Revolution start?
1750
This invention is used to process cotton quickly
What is the cotton gin?
An area with political borders that a government has control of. Some times these are based on a nation of people. After ww1, nationalism was a principle of creating of these units.
What is a state?
Who was the scientist who developed the theory of gravity?
Isaac Newton
When did the Industrial Revolution begin?
1750
Where did the agrarian revolution start?
It started in Europe
This device boils hot water to move things and power machines.
What is the steam engine?
In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin?
UK
What was the name of the solar system structure that we know today?
Copernican system
Which place of production became more common? Factories or individual stores?
Factories
What is the enclosure movement?
The movement of people in the UK from villages to cities during the Industrial Revolution. Sometimes the villagers were freed serfs.
This device made book-making cheaper and quicker than ever before. It was influential in the Scientific Revolution.
What is the printing press? It was technically first invented in China, but was made popular in the Scientific Revolution.
A tax on official stamps in the UK and its colonies.
What is the stamp act?
Geocentric/Ptomlemiac system
What did the Communist philosopher, Karl Marx, want the workers to seize?
Hint: Means of ____
means of production
Farming practice where farmers plant different crops in different fields and change the crop ever so often to prevent soil degradation
what is crop rotation?
A device used for quick long distance communication. It uses a system called Morse Code to transmit messages over long wires.
What is the telegraph?