February 26, strayer chapter 17

 February 26, strayer chapter 17

. "The global context for this epochal economic transformation lies in a very substantial increase in human numbers from about 375 million people in 1400 to about 1 billion in the early nineteenth century. accompanying this growth in population was an emerging energy crisis, most pronounced in Western Europe, china and Japan as wood and charcoal the major industrial fuels, became scarcer and their prices rose. in short global energy demands began to push against the existing local and regional ecological limits. in broad terms, the industrial revolution marks a human response to that dilemma as nonrenewable fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas replaced the endlessly renewable energy sources of wind water wood and the muscle power of people and animals. It was a breakthrough of unprecedented proportions that made available for human use, at least temporarily, immensely greater quantities  of enerfy. sustaining the industrial revolution was went, form the islands  off the coast of peru as well as various mineral sources of nitrates and phosphates in South America and pacific oceania.

this was an agricultural breakthrough, as these substances made excellent fertilizers, enrcihcing the soils and enabling highly productive input intensive farming". This information as well was all taken out of the history text book and since I just realized and noted I did not touch heavily upon this topic I will like to now today. This information I shall be tying will be coming out straight from the text book and to start off it says, "The industrial revolution has long been a source of great controversy among scholars. why did it occur first in Europe, within Europe, why did it occur earliest in Great Britain an why did it take place in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? some explanations have sought the answer in unique and deeply rooted features of European society, history, or culture.

One recent account for example argued that europeans have been distinguished for several thousand years by a restless, creative, and freedom loving culture with its roots in the aristocratic war like societies, of the west, many world historians have challenged views that seem to suggest that europeans invaders".

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