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Position:Home>History> Compare Japand and western Europe?Question:Compare the causes and early phases of the industrial revolution in western Europe and Japan -Please dont just tell me to do my work because i am and i just need some help please -And thannks to anyone that helps! Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Compare the causes and early phases of the industrial revolution in western Europe and Japan -Please dont just tell me to do my work because i am and i just need some help please -And thannks to anyone that helps! I will give you some sites but you will have to do the comparison: 1) Europe The Industrial Revolution may be defined as the application of power-driven machinery to manufacturing. It had its beginning in remote times, and is still continuing in some places. In the eighteenth century all of western Europe began to industrialize rapidly, but in England the process was most highly accelerated. England's head start may be attributed to the emergence of a number of simultaneous factors. Britain had burned up her magnificent oak forests in its fireplaces, but large deposits of coal were still available for industrial fuel. There was an abundant labor supply to mine coal and iron, and to man the factories. From the old commercial empire there remained a fleet, and England still possessed colonies to furnish raw materials and act as captive markets for manufactured goods. Tobacco merchants of Glasgow and tea merchants of London and Bristol had capital to invest and the technical know-how derived from the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. Last, but not least important, the insularity of England saved industrial development from being interrupted by war. Soon all western Europe was more or less industrialized, and the coming of electricity and cheap steel after 1850 further speeded the process. I. The Agricultural Revolution http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc... http://people.clemson.edu/~pammack/lec12... http://www.sparknotes.com/history/europe... http://www.puhsd.k12.ca.us/chana/staffpa... http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/mig... Japan http://www.wwu.edu/~kaplan/eas201/201-18... http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_7... http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.ht... http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~jm... http://www.bartleby.com/65/in/IndustR.ht... |