HIST 1007 : History 1007 Test 2 Essay
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Background to the industrial revolution, 1600-1800: capitalism and the slave trade. You would never think of selling your land, people knew you by it: now, land is for sale. Could go to markets and sell land: depersonalized labor, medieval times, your job was also your identity. Inherited your job from family: now, labor markets. You could sell your labor to an employer for money. The role of slavery: the transformation of slavery, africans also made money from the slave trade sold other. By the end of 18th century, about 82% black society. Introduction: has done more to change our lives today than any other thing we will learn. Still in the middle of it right now: spread very wide, geographically, a continuous innovation of new technologies and techniques, increase in scale a shear explosion of stuff. England won: france signed the treaty of paris. Constitutional monarchy still have a king and queen but the people have more power.
