Tech and Civ 2

Question 1

What is industrialization

Answer 1

process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on machinery

Question 2

What is Time Space Compression

Answer 2

ability to move across distances faster changes our view on space and time

Question 3

Def. of Inalienable

Answer 3

Can’t sell land in preindustrial world because your kids would have a tie to it as well. Very hard to separate from

Question 4

Adoption Labor System

Answer 4

created trustworthy people that they could bring into their homes and become part of their family

Question 5

What did 1st industrial revolution focus on

Answer 5

textiles, iron, steam power

Question 6

What did 2nd industrial revolution focus on

Answer 6

railroads, steel, petroleum, chemicals, electricity

Question 7

Why didn’t everyone go through industrial revolution at the same time and rate?

Answer 7

o Others were trying to imitate Britain but Britain kept to themselves and didn’t share their inventions.
o British exports invested in building their inventions around the world
o Britain took over the major raw materials making it hard for other countries to keep up

Question 8

Enclosure Movement

Answer 8

the legal process in England of enclosing a number of small landholdings to create one larger farm. Once enclosed, use of the land became restricted to the owner, and it ceased to be common land for communal use

Question 9

“Rocket” Steam Locomotive

Answer 9

made the steam engine small enough to move cars, helped with railways

Question 10

“Morse” Telegraph

Answer 10

instant long-distance communication synchronization of market information

Question 11

Standardization

Answer 11

the process of implementing and developing technical standards based on the consensus of different parties that include firms, users, interest groups, standards organizations and governments

Question 12

Laissez-faire

Answer 12

economic system in which transactions are free from government intervention

Question 13

Socialism

Answer 13

political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production and distribution should be owned by the community as a whole

Question 14

Communism

Answer 14

political theory from Karl Marx advocated class was and leading to a society in which all property owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs

Question 15

Karl Marx

Answer 15

Historical Materialism
Class conscience
Alienation

Question 16

Palm Oil

Answer 16

lubricated the machinery of the 19th century industrial revolution

Question 17

Imperialism

Answer 17

extending a countries or rulers power and influence through diplomacy or military force

Question 18

New Imperialism Motives

Answer 18

Raw materials
New markets
Civilizing mission

Question 19

New Imperialism Means

Answer 19

Quinine
Firearms
Gunboats
Missionaries

Question 20

What did the world fair do

Answer 20

Introduced your city to the world, displayed the empire of the host nation, got peopled prepared for changes in society

Question 21

Steel

Answer 21

o Highly skilled labor required to produce
o Production was controlled by the workers originally
o During late 1800s we see the rise of the steel factory and mass production
o At a massive scale it revolutionized finance, bookkeeping, and transportation
o Steel had national security implications so it revolutionized the relationship between business and government
o Because the future was all steel, all profits from it went back into expansion of production
o Cities and factories rose in places that steel was very abundant
o Steel companies started to become a mining company to have enough fuel for their steel production
o Modern world would be built by huge, powerful, multifaceted corporations, competing with one another to produce cheap products with cheap energy, they will become models for the corporate dominance of the modern age
o Competition between these mega corporations dropped the price of steel so dramatically that it became impossible for them to make money
o By 1876, 90% of the brainwork of metallurgy had been automated
o Shifted the power balance from factory labor to factory owners, remaining work was extremely dangerous and offered little pay

Question 22

Fordism

Answer 22

 Interchangeble parts
 Continuous flow: conveyor belt