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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

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$3,000,000.00

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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