Britain had an abundant supply of this useful fuel.
What is coal?
100
This process allowed for a more efficient use of farmlands, by creating a system where all of a farmer's lands could be used every year for food production.
What is the four-course crop rotation?
100
This rose in every country affected by the industrial revolution
What is the standard of living?
100
This economic/political system promotes a government that owns and controls the businesses and the goods and services produced.
What is socialism?
100
This resource was the most widely exported from Africa prior to the mid 1800s.
What are slaves?
200
The colonies of Britain supplied trade company owners with an abundant supply of this, which they used to support inventors and new businesses.
What is financial capital?
200
This invention was originally used in mining, but eventually helped power trains and ships.
What is the steam engine?
200
This group of people were very effective in helping to work in tight spaces.
Who are children?
200
This idea stated that society was organized based on the the idea of "survival of the fittest".
What is Social Darwinism?
200
This agreement determined the boundaries and rules European countries would follow while colonizing Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
300
This 17th century revolution that preceded the Industrial Revolution had changed the way people thought about science and the world around them.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
300
This was an early version of an electric generator.
What is a dynamo?
300
People began organizing themselves into these groups to demand better working conditions from their employers.
What are labor unions?
300
He wrote the major ideas of the Communist League in 1848 in the "Communist Manifesto".
Who is Karl Marx?
300
This country colonized most of West Africa.
What is France?
400
These type of markets in England's colonies were most effective because they had no choice but to buy from England.
What are captive markets?
400
This English nobleman was credited for popularizing root crops.
Who was Lord "Turnip" Townshend?
400
The first child labor law was passed in this year.
What is 1832?
400
Physicists wrote new theories revolutionizing the science by questioning the long-held theories of this scientist.
Who is Isaac Newton?
400
This country sought to create a colony from Cairo to Cape Town.
What is Britain?
500
These two countries eventually built on the knowledge of England and surpassed it leading the second Industrial Revolution.
What are Germany and the United States?
500
This pottery company was the first to create cheap, machine-made, hygenic dishware.
What is Wedgewood?
500
This process occurred as people moved into the cities and near rivers to get jobs in factories.
What is urbanization?
500
The concept of "laissez faire" capitalism was written in "The Wealth of Nations" by this author.
Who is Adam Smith?
500
These two countries also had African colonies though they were only recently unified.