STANDARDS: SSWH13 Examine the intellectual, political, social, and economic factors that changed the world view of Europeans from the sixteenth century CE/AD to the late eighteenth century CE/AD. a. Explain the scientific contributions of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton and how these ideas changed the European worldview. b. Identify the major ideas of the Enlightenment from the writings of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau, and their relationship to politics and society. SSWH14 Analyze the Age of Revolutions. a. Examine absolutism through a comparison of the reigns of Louis XIV and Tsar Peter the Great. b. Identify the causes and results of the revolutions in England (1689), United States (1776), France (1789), Haiti (1791), and Latin America (1808-1825). c. Explain Napoleon’s rise to power, the role of geography in his defeat, and the consequences of France’s defeat for Europe. Warm up (Opening):
| Work SessionWork Session The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency of water power, the increasing use of steam power, the development of machine tools and the rise of the factory system. Textiles were the dominant industry of the Industrial Revolution in terms of employment, value of output and capital invested; the textile industry was also the first to use modern production methods. Copy and Answer after viewing video: 1. (1:50) Prior to the Industrial Revolution, how much of the world’s population engaged in farming? What about today in the United States? 2. (2:14) What is John Green’s definition of the Industrial Revolution? 3. (4:18) What are some euro-centric reason as to why industrialization might have happened first in Europe? 4. (6:00) Why was China just as primed for an Industrial Revolution as Britain and the rest of Europe was? 5. (7:00) What advantages in Europe (and specifically England) have to benefit from the Industrial Revolution? 6. (9:45) What arguments could be made that Indian cotton production helped spur British industrialization?
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