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All of the following are examples of how the Industrial Revolution spread around the world to the Islamic World EXCEPT?
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However, cotton exports to England remained such a powerful source of revenues that agricultural production won out over manufacturing investments, which stagnated by comparison.

Silk production traditionally had relied on rural women organized in households, but the forces of industrialization had engaged more families in the production of cash crops, including silk for export.

adopted elements of the Western Industrial Revolution by a classic policy of technology transfer, importing experts and machines from England to build textile factories, sugar refineries, and steam-powered mills.

Under Ottoman control in the 1830s, Egypt adopted elements of the Western Industrial Revolution by a classic policy of technology transfer.

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What was the impact of Thomas Newcomen?
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Developed a way to harness the power of water, horses, and heat.

A wealthy hardware manufacturer in Birmingham, England, who had profited from an expanding export trade overseas.

All modern engines, either in factories or applied to locomotion, are descendants of his engine

He created an engine was efficient and cheap; embodied rotary motion, the basis of all subsequent machinery; and offered a continuous source of power.

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The following explains why England was best positioned for an Industrial Revolution and not other places around the world?
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Much earlier use of coal had shaped the cast iron industry, but the technological development occurred in a vastly different economic and political context than in other places.

As their forests dwindled, there were no suitable coal deposits available to be mined.

It become a source for extraction of raw materials, instead of a place of production

They had the basic foundational industries (iron and textiles) that were facing serious challenges. In addition, they had access to sources of innovation, raw materials and labor, and the capital to invest in new enterprises.

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All of the following are examples of how the Industrial Revolution spread around the world to China EXCEPT?
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Merchant entrepreneurs developed shipping and other enterprises, and industry eventually drew the attention and support of the imperial court beginning in the twentieth century.

Radical consciousness developed among the workers and soon spread beyond the factories. The economic and technological transformations that had created enormous social tensions eventually fomented unrest and revolution in the early twentieth century.

the textile industry also began to be industrialized in the second half of the nineteenth century. A Frenchman first introduced a mechanized spinning machine.

Prompted by the threat of Western imperialism, industrialization for defense began in coastal cities during the late nineteenth century.

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Which describes the stage of the rise of global capitalism-by way of the Industrial Revolution the book describes as Finance Capitalism?
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furthered the processes of urbanization and cities attracted the forces of globalization. The key strategies of globalization included the centralized control of capital for investment, technology, raw materials, and labor, marked by the increasing ability to move these elements around the globe in order to maximize profits from industry.

Bankers and financiers invested in industry, commerce, and even agriculture. Finance capitalists combined huge corporations and immense concentrations of money in economic activities that were increasingly global and intertwined with the expansion of European nation-states in the Americas, Asia, and Africa.

By the late eighteenth century, the investment of capital in industry, much of it obtained from commerce and agriculture, began the vast expansion to eventually be thedominant form of capitalism not only in Europe, but also eventually around the globe.

It could not have occurred without the materials acquired from overseas. Cotton from Egypt and India, rubber from the Congo, palm oil from Nigeria, and a myriad of other raw materials helped fuel it. Sugar, tea, and coffee sustained its workers. The overseas colonies not only provided critical resources, they consumed the manufactured products. Profits from the transport of materials were invested in enterprises at home and abroad.

Answer 1

Answer:

In 1774, Louis XVI of the bourbon family of kings ascended the throne of France.

Explanation:

He was 20 years old and married to the Austrian princess Marie Antoinette.