Social Sciences and History / Unit 4 SSH 0324 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Why Britain Industrialized First
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The idea
The anchor rejects a cultural explanation of European dominance: the lead was technological and lasted under a century. Industrialization began in Britain about seventeen fifty on population growth, commercial agriculture and coal, in mining and textiles first.
In practice
Agriculture leaving subsistence behind by eighteen hundred.
Where people slip
The old view credited European culture or race; the anchor calls that self-serving and inaccurate.
Your place on the trail
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