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If two identical springs [each with a spring constant K] were put
together in parallel, what would be their “effective” or resultant
spring constant?

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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.