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Overview of the period 1750 - 1914 in world history.
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Period 4: 1750 – 1914:A Modern World?-Revolutions…
AP World History
Richard Smart
Oakland Mills High School
(Adapted from World History for Us All)
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World Population, 400 BCE - 2000 CE
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$500,000.00
$1,000,000.00
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$2,000,000.00
$2,500,000.00
$3,000,000.00
1700 1820 1870 1913
The Modern Revolution meant powerful economic growth in the
world as a whole.
World Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Dollars as valued in 1990
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Eur./N.AAsia
Percentage of World GDP Western Europe and North America vs. Asia
The Modern Revolution shifted the world’s economic center.
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And more of the world was colonized than ever before.
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The Industrial Revolution
Fossil fuel energy in production and transportation
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RailroadSteamboa
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Transatlantic cableNewspaper
The Communication
Revolution
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Political Revolutions
United States 1776
Venezuela 1811Haiti 1791
France 1789
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Conservatism•Edmund Burke•Congress of Vienna•Metternich
Ideologies and Society
Liberalism•John Stuart Mill•Napoleon•Universal suffrage•Improved working conditions.
Nationalism•Identity and state linked•Cultural heritage stressed.•Unification movements•Independence movements
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