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Changes During The Industrial Era

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Throughout the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution shifted Europe exponentially from a basic, morbid society, to become highly intricate and economically prosperous. Urbanization spread throughout Europe making unsafe working areas and conditions no longer a problem for the average worker due to government 's safety laws. By increasing the low wages, it allowed the men of Europe to fully support their families, eliminating children and women from working in the factories. These changes during the industrial era created a positive attitude for the European working class, who sought to move up into the middle class. Politics was also influenced during this beneficial time period. Democracy was being spread and implemented by countries …show more content…

Traveling during the early 1700s was quite inefficient and difficult due to the lack of infrastructure, little to no established transportation, and poor communication. The poor communication from one farming community to the next also caused stagnation in politics and economies in Europe. With education being scarce, especially to working class families, a large portion of the European population was unable to participate in any sort of politics. With this no say in government, the people of Europe could not protect themselves from the monarchy. With the technology and ideas accumulated during the Scientific Revolution, the food production was changed drastically in Europe. With the creation and institution of crop rotation, iron plows and irrigation as well as nutrient usage, harvesting crops advanced dramatically. Irrigation aided in producing healthier and more abundant crops, the iron plow allowed for land to become plantable which enabled land nearly anywhere to have the ability to be turned into farming ground. Scientists during the time discovered the imperativeness of nutrient rich soil to improve plant growth and health, introducing fertilizer to farmers. This discovery lead to the usage of crop rotations, which consisted of having half of the fields, grew food for the animals and having the animals roam on that land. The other half of the land was

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