World History Blog

This reading was really cool to me. I have already learned about the Industrial Revolution in the past but it was nice to be refreshed and to also learn a couple new things. One of the parts I found interesting was looking at why it happened in Western Europe and how some people thought that there was no way it could have happened anywhere else. I don't think that is true I think it definitely would have happened somewhere else but I think it just would have taken a little bit longer. As they explained other regions like China and India had already gone through an industrial revolution if you thought about it. They developed paper, gun powder, the printing press, and many other things. However for some reason these regions just kind of stopped innovating. Now the reason why Great Britain was so successful was because the government motivated its people to make new things because they would reward them. Since they had lost the economic support from the American colonies they needed ...

This reading was pretty interesting to me because we really got to see how the echoes of the revolution kept going after the revolutions. So not only did one revolution inspire another then inspire another and then twice again. But these same ideas inspired some other movements that were very important. The first movement was the abolition of slavery. What they wanted was what the french and North American people wanted. They wanted freedom, popular sovereignty, and equality. This movement was successful because they had collaboration and protests not only from people who were enslaved themselves but from other people who supported them. It is obvious that if you are enslaved you are not going to be able to protest, so that is when support from other people is really crucial. Another thing is humanization of people who had been enslaved. What that consisted of was people who had made it out of slavery or had been freed telling their story and letting other people know how devastating i...

"New ideas of liberty, equality, free trade, religious tolerance, republicanism, and human rationality were in the air." I think these ideas here were the primary reasons as to why the Atlantic Revolutions happened. The overall thrust was to extend political rights further that what had ever been seen. Some people refer to these Revolutions as the "democratic revolutions." The Atlantic Revolutions inspired efforts in many countries to abolish slavery, to extend the right to vote, to develop constitutions, and to secure equality for women. You could say that Nationalism was one of the most important ideas in of the modern era, started form the Atlantic revolutions. The North American Revolution The American Revolution all started with the declaration of Independence in 1776, after they ended up with an underdog military victory in 1781, and finally generated a federal constitution in 1787, joining thirteen other colonies into one unified nation. This was the first...