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Criteria of historical significance

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Depth - how deeply was it felt
Duration - how long did it last - is it still relevant today
Scope - how many people did it impact

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Progress

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Positive change

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Continuity

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little to no change

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Decline

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Negative change

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Turning point

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sudden change - spark

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Long term/underlying causes

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something that made an impact on something happening, may go back many years

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Short-term causes

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something that impacted something very close in time to the event

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Trigger cause

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The spark

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PERSIAT

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Political
Economical
Religious
Intelectual
Artistic
Technological

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What are revolutions

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several people/groups that come together to make a change in the world
Unsatisfied people causing an uprising against power
ALWAYS a change

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Why do revolutions happen

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Unjustice or oppression of people
Economic problems and suffering

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What did Britain posses that made it the perfect starting point

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Labour supply - urbanizaton
Raw materials - iron and coal
Capital - money
Pro-buisness government - laissez faire
Technological advancements

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Before the agricultural revolution

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subsistence farmers
75% of europeans lived in the countryside
Strip farming

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After the agricultural reolution

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Modern tech advancements
New breeds of animals
Farmers began to specialize in crops

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Commons

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Key to survival
- used for grazing sheep and cattle
- collection of wood
- fish from pond

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Enclosure Acts

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Allowed the government to fence up and sell the commons to the highest bidder

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Cons of the enclosure acts

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small farmers could not survive
sold the land at bargain prices to gentleman farmers
They then moved to rural communities

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Changes in farming

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the speed drill - jethro tull 1701- plants in straight lines
crop rotation - charles turnip townstead - grow for 2 years leave to fallow - grasses and turnips
robert

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Problems with the pro-buisness government

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child labour
no quality control
bad working conditions

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Textile industry - new tech

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flying shuttle - 1733 John kay - increased weaving speed
Spinning jenny - 1764 James hargreaves - improved the spinning wheel
Water frame - 1771 sir richard arkwright - water frame for spinning thread

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Steam engine

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Tomas newcomen invented in 1712
James Watt then improved it and made it more versatile

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Cottage industry

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products would be made through piece work
working at home with their own equiptment
Not as fast, cheap or as consistent as factories

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Concequences of the textile industry

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Industrial accidents
Lung diseases
Deafness

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Concequences of the coal mines

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Cave-ins
Explosions
Burns and blisters - lime
Lead poisoning
Black lung

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Wages and pay
12-16 hour days/ 6 days a week Poor pay
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Living conditions
Whole families in tenements fast spread of diseases no development,sanitary codes
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Social reformers
government, churches and reformers began collected primary evidence to address issues
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Slum
overcrowded district inhabited by poor people
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Social reform
social movement in hopes of chages society
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Abolition
the official act of ending slavery britain passed the slve trade act in 1807
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Factory acts
1802 - children were unable to work more than 12 hours in cotton mills 1819 - illegal to hire children over 9 to work in the texile industry 1824 - workers associations made leagal
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Pauper apprentices
Children taken from orphanges to work - made them sign contracts to work until they were 21
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Why were children the ideal workers
less likely to rebel small and could fit into small places paid the least could be physically punished
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Workhouses
work in return for food and shelter
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Layers of the earth
Crust - outermost layer of rock plate - 5-35km Mantle - Magma Core - hot dense ball of mostly iron
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Formation of mountains
Volcanic - Through the cracks in the crust, molten rock can surge up and create mountains Fold - Motions of the techtonic plates puch together and form mountains
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Political Map
Divisions made by the government - province borders - Cities, seas and landmasses
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Glaciation and erosion
The ice age caused north america to be covered in glaciers. The glaciers scraped the land and left barren rock. The water then drained in the ocean, but if some was bolcked it created irregular patterns
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Topographical map
Shows the shape of the land - bodies of water - some important citi|es - heightof the land
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Weather
Combination of humidity, temperature, visibility, wind and atmospheric pressure
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Climate
statistics, year to year variations and season cycles used to predict the future weather Extreme weather events cause slight change in the predictions
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Climate graphs
Climate in red line graph - Celcius on the left Rainfall in blue bar graph - mm on the right
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Prime Meridian
Lines of longitude North to south Vertical lines
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Equator
Lines of latitude Parallels east to west Horizontal lines - 111 km distace between degrees
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Location
Relative - using comaprison to determine a location - landmarks Absolute - using longitude and latitude lines - precise/exact
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Place
Physical characteristics - rivers, nature, forests Human characteristics - culture, language, structure
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Regions
Way to categorize and separate land
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Human - environment interaction
Humans modify and change the land Humans adapt to the land Humans depend on the land to survive
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Resources
Renewable - can be replaced through natural processes - solar energy, crops, water and forests Non-renewable - will run out, fixed/limited amount - metals, coal, fossil fuel, gas
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Sustainability - Unsustainable
Sustainability - using resources in way that conserves for the future Unustainable - Using them in a way that will cause them to run out
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Movement
Why do things move? Climate Land Ease of movement Resources - ocean for trade and fish What moves? Languages Culture Ideas Technology Religion Fashion Media
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Essentials to people
Easy movement Good climate Good resources
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Canadian Shield
More than 2 billion years old Boreal forests Climate varies - the farther nother, the colder winters Chaotic water patterns due to glacitaion - Left barren rock after scraping the soil off Foundation of canada Levelled volcanic mountains due to erosion

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