HIST 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Spinning Jenny, Cotton Gin, British Coal
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Population growth that will outpace all previous periods in european history. Commodities and markets: advent of modern capitalists markets will dominate all aspects of human organization. Industrial revolution doesn"t just happen in one place. Scientific revolution : by 1700 we see new invention like seed drill. Enclosure movement : basic idea is the privatization of farmland. Previously in the modern period you had nobility and landowners. Anything outside of their domain could be used by anybody. The privatization led to hiring people and they would also bring in new methods of farming. This enriched large farmers but when they started needing less people to work the fields (due to inventions) people went for work in cities. Cultural differences is britain now has this entrepreneurship cultural. Trade: britain took over in the new world rather than france after neopolian"s fail. This allows them to bring in goods and sell them.
