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Industrial Revolution

The industrial revolution was the declining of rural living and increased production. It was the beginnig of people buying clothes and food in town stores insteading of growing or making them themselfs. It took place in america durning the 1850s. It led to many scientific discoveries that we still use in some form today. Skyscrapers and buildings started to slowly pop up in big cities. The industrial revolution was a majoring turning point in world history because it led to inventions and ideas used all over the world. The agriculture revolution contributed to a population explosion because there was people could have more children and feed them because of the new inventions that made farming more efficient and larger. Some new technologies that helped trigger the industrial revolution was the telegraph, railroads and stronger iron for building.

French revolution

The French Revolution ​The causes for the French revolution were Economic and social unrest. Examples of this are on April 28, 1789, French workers at a wallpaper factory rebelled against an owner who was going to lower their pay even though the economy was booming. They vandalized his home and forced him not to. The nobles did not worry about this rebellion, which would lead to revolution. By July unemployed and the hungry took to the streets in arms. All the poor urban class wanted was for the rich nobles to pay their share of taxes. Bad economic times also led to a French rebellion because the government had done years of deficit spending and costly wars, which meant that they had to tax people more to cover the costs. Some people tried to reduce government spending and to reform, but they were quickly shot down by nobles. Later on July 14 1789 Rebels seized a prison and killed five guards, today French people celebrate this as the beginning of their revolution. So basically the causes of the French Revolution was a bad economy and unfair taxes and lesser freedom for the lower classes. Below are pictures of the French Revolution.
The French Revolution changed from a government reformation to a bloody revolution because Great Fear spread panic among the townspeople. So instead of being killed first rebels went crazy on the Nobels. Rebels attacked Nobels and wealthy people for days, taking many lives. In 1792 the newly elected people declared war on Austria , Prussia, Britain, and other places.

Will America end up like Rome?

Rome was one of the greatest empires ever. Roman culture and ideas has had a major influence on how America is today. As we have learned, Rome evantually collapsed because of many reasons. One example is military reasons, the Germanic people kept invading and they were successful. They were successful because Roman legions lacked discipline and training that previous legions had. So, Rome hired mercenaries to fight for them, since they were mercenaries they had little loyalty to Rome.

Another reason Rome collapsed was because of political reasons. Government gradually became oppresive and authoritarian, so most the people did not support the government. More and more government officals became corrupt, and there were constantly civil wars to gain the throne. Civil wars greatly weakend a country already under attack. The rich East Roman empire did nothing to help the struggling west.

Economic causes also led to the collapse of Rome. People kept getting taxed more to support the huge government and military. Social causes also contributed to the collapse because many people felt they were lacking patriots and kept hiring mercenaries to fight for them. We say that Rome "fell" is not completely correct. Over time it changed into Byzantine, centuries passed and German customs and languages replaced roman customs.

That was basically how Rome fell. I do not believe america will end up like this simply because we are smarter than that and hopefully have learned from history's mistakes by now. We are going through a tough time right now but we will survive. Also, today people will not stand for corruption and unfair taxes. That is why we can vote people in elected office out. Another reason is that today with our advanced technology being invaded by another country like what happend to Rome is almost impossible because we still have the strongest military, not the biggest, in the world. We have already gone through a civil war, and if our country can survive that, we will survive for hundreds of more years. 

How Geography affected Roman Empire compared to Greek civilization.

Geography effects all civilizations. Espically past civilizations, like the Roman Empire and Ancient Greece. For example Rome used geography to expand there empire by traveling by water and land. They also used geography to defeat hannibal by out manuvering him. To out manuver him they used boats to go to Hannibals home and draw him out of Italy and evantually defeat him. So, geography helped the Romans build an empire. Rome's geography also helped feed them because they had fertile land to grow crops and keep them from starving. Geography did not help Greece the way it did Rome. Geography, was a negative part of Greece because mountains caused them to become isolated and create city-states. This was a major disadvantage because not only did it cause them to fight amongst each other, it prevented them from becoming an empire. It did help them sail to islands, but overall geography was a major disadvantage to ancient greece. Also there was not much fertile land as Rome had, so they could not grow a lot of food for their people.

The role of Geography in Ancient Greece. By william Costello

            Geography has played a major role in the history of civilization. For instance Ancient Greece. There were hundreds of rocky-mountains that divided them. Because of this they each were isolated from each other and could not expand and create an empire like the Egyptians or the Persians. Since they could not expand through land, they used the seas to travel to the outside world. Since there are hundreds of natural bays, they had perfect places to store ships. This played a major role in Greece’s economy which relied on sailing for carrying cargoes of natural resources used for trade. Since they were such good sailors they traveled to other far away countries and brought back with them knowledge. Around 750 B.C. their cities started to become overpopulated so they began to move to the many islands and spread as far as Spain and Egypt. While they expanded so did their ideas and culture. But they were not friends with their neighboring city-states and they constantly fought. The geography did however help them fight the Persians from invading in the battle of  Thermopylae. This led to their demise because years later, Rome eventually conquered them because they could not work together. 

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