steam engine and cotton gin. Before the era started‚ most manufacturing occurred in people’s home‚ making one product at a time. This now evolved into factories that mass produce with machinery. Iron and textile industries boomed in popularity and income‚ making money off the public in record speed. This‚ however‚ leads to huge monopolies and failing of businesses. This changed history from being simple farmers into huge industrialists. Before the 1700s and before the Industrial Era even begun
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Secular Humanism is the naturalistic ideology that embraces and places great emphasis on humanity’s exclusive authority to determine and establish an arrangement of moral and ethical principles. The involvement of any supernatural forces is suppressed due to the fact that the existence of anything that cannot produce tangible evidence through evaluation or experiments is denied. Science to secular humanists is what the Scripture is to Christians. Secular Humanism stems from the philosophy of
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The Communist Revolution started in 1911‚ and later the Chinese had to to fight off the Japanese invasion with the the help of the United states. Once the Japanese surrendered‚ at the end of world war 2‚ the Chinese Civil War strengthened. This was without a doubt the worst and most violent events in the history of China‚ and it lasted for four miserable years between 1945-1949. This entire civil war was primarily about Nationalist and Communist control over China‚ with Mao Zedong and many
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I disagree with the statement. The French Revolution was a period of time where great changes happened to France and generated profound effects. It was caused by many reasons‚ mainly the poor leadership of King Louis as he was indecisive and made many bad decisions that changed the course of France’s future. Moreover‚ he had inherited many problems of the previous kings and further aggravated the financial situation of France with his actions. Firstly‚ he had unintentionally caused the storming
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civilizations began to transition from their hunter and gatherer lifestyles‚ and move towards more sustainable settlements. This move towards more permanent settlements is what gave rise to many new technologies. During the pre-modern era‚ the technological innovations of Cuneiform‚ beasts of burden‚ and early maritime trade were the most pivotal in establishing the course of human history. Without these select technological innovations‚ modern day societies would be vastly different. The first
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The Second Industrial Revolution was a period of the United States’s rapid urbanization and territorial expansion (Engelman). It is generally recognized as occurring between 1870 and 1914 (Engelman). The political‚ social‚ and economic development of the United States was positively impacted because the Second Industrial Revolution transformed technology‚ expanded industries‚ and enhanced wealth. Major technological advancements were introduced in the United States. This included advancements in
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The ability or often‚ promptitude of males and females to flirt and be flirted- a set of behaviors and mutually understood signals deeply and universally embedded in our psyche during a long‚ transcendent history and beguiling sophistication-has been long trivialized if not demonized. It’s only in the latest decades‚ especially since the 1970s (see below) that flirting behaviors and attitudes have began to be analyzed to clues concerning the biological and psychological wisdom they encode.
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The French Revolution of 1789 and the February and October Revolutions of 1917 were not only the result of the revolutionaries but also the outcome of the blunders committed by the governments that stood before the revolutions. Military defeats in the Seven Years War‚ Russo-Japanese War and World War I caused a decline in public support and patriotism for the old regimes. The trust and leadership of the leaders of the soon to be overthrown French and Russian regimes were questioned by the public
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declared independence for various reasons leading up to the American Revolution. The first of many acts that led to rebellion was the Stamp Act of 1765. This act put taxes on any type of paper that the colonists used. The next acts were the Land Ordinance of 1785. The first act reserved land for American Indians that was west of the Appalachian Mountains. The final piece that led to rebellion were the Townshend Acts of 1767. This included the Quartering Act that forced colonists to house British soldiers
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mainland. After France was removed from the North Americans it created a huge debt that Britain had to find means to pay back‚ which caused a major change for Britain after 1963. The American Revolution was precipitated‚ in part‚ by a series of laws passed between 1764 and 1774 that regulating trade and taxes. This legislation caused tensions between colonists and imperial officials. The end of the war had also brought a recession‚ and British merchants began to ask for payment for debts that colonists
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