The enclosure movement and crop rotation were important to the agricultural revolution in Great Britain.

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Cottage industry was an economic system, based on supply and demand, called capitalism.

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The textile industry developed because of the international demand for more cloth that rural workers spinning cloth by hand could not keep up with, so soon new inventions sped cloth manufacturing resulting in the rise of the factory.

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Steam engines required coal to operate so the need for coal was doubly increased and the coal industry grew accordingly.

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Laws enforced during the nineteenth century increasingly mandated that children be educated for a certain number of hours per day.

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Economic, political, and social forces accelerated the drive to take over land in all parts of the globe, and the Industrial Revolution provided European countries with a need to add lands to their control.

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Because of their advanced technology, many Europeans basically believed that they were better than other peoples.

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