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THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Industry comes to Europe as new and improved technology revolutionizes how work is done and helps shape the modern world.
KEY EVENTS
  • ​Watts improves the steam
  • Steam-powered locomotive invented
  • Whitney develops interchangeable parts
  • Bell invents the telephone
  • Pasteur helps confirm germ theory of disease
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NATIONALISM AND THE FORCES OF CHANGE
The change brought by the French Revolution and the Enlightenment develops into nationalism in the mid-1800s with a wave of revolutions that will unite people to form nations.
KEY EVENTS
  • ​Congress of Vienna
  • Marx publishes the Communist Manifesto
  • Crimean War
  • Unification of Italy
  • Unification of Germany
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IMPERIALISM AND THE BUILDING OF EMPIRES
​​The major powers of the world compete in a race for territory.  Exploiting these foreign lands for profit and power, they build massive imperial empires as they spread their influence over Africa and Asia.
KEY EVENTS
  • ​Berlin Conference
  • Sepoy Rebellion
  • Opium Wars
  • Spencer introduces Social Darwinism
  • Crisis in the Balkans
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