HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Cotton Gin, American Inventor, Indirect Rule

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For the first time, farmers were able to produce enough food to feed large and growing nonagrarian populations. In these locations, peasant farming gave way to specialized production for the market) Global trading trickled its way down from elites to ordinary folk. Even ordinary people could purchase imported goods with their earnings. Burgeoisie investors for experiment in industrial revolution. Industrial revolution: the emergence of manufacturing caused a big leap in the output of industrial commodities. The heart of this process was a gradual accumulation and diffusion of technical knowledge. Lots of little inventions, their applications, and their diffusion across the. Atlantic world gradually built up a stock of technical knowledge and practice. Industrious (change in mindset) >< industrial (change in technology & tool) Question 2: consequences that industrial revolution had for: As england became the world"s largest cloth producer, it imported cotton from brazil, egypt,