HISTORY 3CG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Industrial Revolution, Wright Brothers, Secularism
16 Sep 2013
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Laws were made that only bullets that flattened when they hit the human body could be used. A long time ago people used to build empires. Empires were the rout of conflicts (people wanting to break away from their empires and build new ones) A violent century and an age of extremes . Why study global history: globalization, comparative analysis. Know and understand themes and know examples of them. Science and technology: charles darwin: on the origin of species by means of natural. Selection 91859: albert einstein"s theory of relativity, advances in healthcare: smallpox, scarlet fever, advances in communication: 1872-bell telephone, airplane: 1903 the wright brothers. Wherever there is an impact on science there is also an impact on war. Can connect the dots between scientific discoveries/advancements and advances in war. Social and political trends: population rise, urbanization, rural-urban migration: factories, social conditions arising from industrialization, prosperity gap. The indian act 1876: 1960: enfranchisement.
