present. The Industrial Revolution began in England in the 1770s and 1780s in textile manufacturing and spread from there across the continent. By the end of the 19th century‚ Great Britain controlled the largest empire in the history of the world—an empire that covered one quarter of the world’s land mass. It had an enormous commercial and technological head start over the rest of the world because the Industrial Revolution started in England. England had their seeds in pre-industrial society‚ therefore
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What was the Bubonic Plague and what made the disease spread so far‚ so rapidly and kill millions of people. How did the Bubonic Plague affect Europe? The Plague vastly affected millions of lives in Europe‚ but it also affected millions of lives around the globe. The Plague is still‚ up to current date one of the largest disease outbreaks in recorded history. The Bubonic Plague was a disease that originated in Turkey in 1347. It was caused by the fleas that lived on rats. The fleas have a bad
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immigrated to different lands where their new lifestyles had very little in common. This was obvious in the settlement of the New England and Chesapeake colonies before 1700 which caused the development of dissimilar societies. The people of New England and the Chesapeake colonies formed different governments upon arrival to North America. They had different motives and incentives for immigrating to America. The composition of the colonists of New England and the Chesapeake area were nothing like
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Have you ever heard of the Black Death? A lot people are familiar with the horrible plague that spread across Europe from early 1348 to late 1349. However‚ most do not know just how big of an effect it had on the nation of Europe. Over time‚ the disease caused famine‚ mass death in highly populated areas‚ and even led to rebellion and uprising from poor people‚ or “peasants”. The disease ravaged the continent of Europe for around two years‚ yet it left tens of thousands of casualties in its wake
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colonies‚ north and south‚ developed two distinct societies. For example‚ in the New England area the settlers developed an egalitarian‚ unified‚ and organized atmosphere‚ while in the Chesapeake region residents created an aristocratic‚ unloyal‚ and scattered environment. But‚ if they are of the same origin‚ how did they develop such divergent societies? This difference was a result of opposite immigration and settlement patterns‚ and motives. Immigration patterns greatly differed of the north and
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it was really rare when England has a female ruler that has firm control over all forces‚major or not‚ at their will. However‚ queen Elizabeth didn’t just give women rights ‚ she also makes a rules to help the poor‚ but only the deserving poor and the deserving unemployed because before society shut them out in the medieval ages. Moreover‚ it was hard for women to get jobs or get tacked seriously by other people before queen Elizabeth 1 became a major influence to England at the
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George Soros Positive News Article The life of George Soros continues to intrigue many scholars‚ political class and general populace as evident in the amount of literature being churned from time to time. According to an excerpt on Discovery Networks‚ George Soros is a multi billionaire funder of leftist groups and causes‚ prime mover and funder of the Democratic Party and founder of the Open Society Foundations. The article further asserts that Soros is one of the most politically powerful persons
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It didn’t just affect the environment it also affected so many workers. Even though the industrial revolution is passed us‚ the effects are still felt in England. Air pollution levels are extremely high in England. While most of the pollution are coming from cars‚ it was the Industrial Revolution that introduce pollution into this world. (Healy) The Industrial Revolution did bring a lot of pain‚ abuse and disaster to mankind‚ but with every
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By the 1700s the English came to the New World and settled in The Chesapeake and New England regions. The lives of the people settled in these regions were centered on two dissimilar lifestyles. Distinctive differences between these regions were in expectations‚ beliefs‚ and social cultures. The differences created a clear cut between North and South. The wide gap between the development of The Chesapeake and New England regions was mainly because of the way their lives were centered. The Chesapeakes
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1730-1745 In the 1730’s the Great Awakening exploded‚ religion rose to power once again and people began to get disconnected from their scientific ways of thinking. Jonathan Edwards was the catalyst to the Great Awakening‚ Edwards preached that not only doing good deeds will lead one to salvation‚ but faith in God will too‚ and he reiterated that faith in God was always above just doing good deeds. There wasn’t just a religious revolution at this time‚ but a social revolution was stirring‚ with
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