How Did The Industrial Revolution Changed European Society

Before the middle of the 18th century, most people lived and worked in countryside. Women worked on their house and sometimes helped men’s work together. Children also worked for their family, but mostly it was small jobs such as farming and watching animal. Especially, there was no technical change in these periods. However, the European Society changed dramatically during the Industrial Revolution period. Industrial Revolution is a great change of the industry and economy in Europe between 18th to 19th centuries. People used many new resources such as coal and iron by inventing machine. Most invention in Industrial Revolution brought large production of Coal, Cotton text, Iron, etc. It also changed people’s life dramatically. Many historians assume that the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain. Why the Industrial Revolution happened in England first? Great Britain was “a small and secure island nation with a robust empire and control over crucial lanes across the oceans” (Cole and Symes 619). Unlikely other European countries, England needed only navies to protect their land and had a small influence from the Napoleon Bonaparte’s war that most European countries spent a lot of money to protect themselves from Bonaparte’s army. The geological benefits helped Great Britain to start the Industrial Revolution first. (need more detail?) Great Britain had developed agriculture. In England, people used commercialized agriculture which means “a combination of new techniques, new crops, and by the ‘enclosure’ of fields and pastures, which turned small holdings, and in many cases commonly held lands, into large fenced tracts that were privately owned and individually managed by commercial landlords” (Cole and Symes 619) This technique was more productive than others since it could concentrate property in few people. As a result, England produced a lot of foods and the population had increased. (need more detail?) England is surrounded by ocean, so importing and exporting goods was easier and faster than other countries. Also, they didn’t need tolls and tariffs to across countries. Especially, the increase of the cotton manufacturing helped England to become the most powerful international country in Europe. Also, exporting coal and iron helped Britain to expend the international market. (need more detail?) In the Industrial Revolution, there were several important resources and invention that changed European society. …show more content…
Iron and coal was one of the important resources in the Industrial Revolution. In England, there was a lot of coal hiding in the mining. When several innovation such as steam engine came out, Britain used coal rather than wood, a scarce and inefficient resource, for making iron. The iron was one of the high quality mineral in European countries in order to make product such as “machines, engines, railway tracks, agricultural implements, and hardware” (Cole and Symes 622). These resources were important since it made European countries to have good quality products in Industrial Revolution. Coal and iron became one of the popular resources that helped Britain to get a lot of finance. (need more detail?) The innovation of …show more content…
Before the Industrial Revolution, The increase of the cotton manufacture was the start of the Industrial Revolution in Europe. Steam engine was the important invention in the Industrial Revolution. James Watt, a Scottish mechanic and instrument maker, invented steam engine in order to pump up the water in the mining for getting