Industrial Revolution

Question 1

Types of revolutions

Answer 1

• Industrial
• Religious
• Social
• Political
• Technological
• Economic
• Cultural

Question 2

Colony

Answer 2

a group of people that work together

Question 3

Raw materials

Answer 3

materials that are natural

Question 4

Revolution

Answer 4

is a change or a development

Question 5

Textiles

Answer 5

materials used to make products

Question 6

Urbanisation

Answer 6

the movement of people from the countryside to the city

Question 7

Why did the industrial revolution begin in Britain

Answer 7

• Population increase due to better style of living and larger workforce
• Overseas trading was growing due to merchants took trade overseas
• Improvement in agriculture → better food quality
• Improvement in transport → development from 1660-1750: canal, roads and railways were built

Question 8

Consequences of Industrial Revolution

Answer 8

• Emergence of the middle class
• Skilled workers earned good money
• Appalling living and working conditions (diseases & no job security)

Question 9

External reasons for the revolution in Japan

Answer 9

• USA interest in Japan - Geographical reasons
• 1853 → US moved expedition to Japan by Commodore Matthew Perry
• Japanese shogun´s inspired by US show of force
  1854 → Perry returned to Edo Bay with double the amount of ships
• Worries about the US attacking, Japan agreed to a treaty

Question 10

Treaties

Answer 10

• Led to a change in the political system = Emperor regained power
• Emperor Meiji took shogun´s power
• Left Kyoto, moved to Yedo (nowadays Tokyo)
• Japanese inspired Britain

Question 11

Meiji Reforms

Answer 11

• Key goals were to westernise, modernise, industrialise, militarise & imperial power
• Japanese people wanted to learn from the rest of the world

Question 12

Impact of Meiji reforms

Answer 12

• Japan changed from being a feudal society to a modern state
• Factory owners did well → many were left behind

Question 13

Industrialisation in UAE

Answer 13

• Before discovering oil people worked in fishing, pearling and trading
• Pearling began in Abu Dhabi
• Dubai was a small fishing settlement
  Foreign traders began to come to Dubai as they declared that they wouldn´t have tax (1892)
• 1930s Dubai → recession and subsequent depression and the pearl industry fell
• Dirham became the official currency in 1973
• By 1980s Dubai wanted to become a tourist destination and Emirates airlines was made
• UAE united in 1971