Period 4: 1750 – 1914: A Modern World? -Revolutions… AP World History Richard Smart Oakland Mills High School (Adapted from World History for Us All) 1
World Population, 400 BCE - 2000 CE
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The Modern Revolution meant powerful economic growth in the world as a whole. $3,000,000.00 $2,500,000.00 $2,000,000.00 $1,500,000.00 $1,000,000.00 $500,000.00 $0.00
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World Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Dollars as valued in 1990 3
The Modern Revolution shifted the world’s economic center. 70 60 50 40
Eur./N.A Asia
30 20 10 0
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Percentage of World GDP Western Europe and North America vs. Asia 4
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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The Steamboat Communication Railroad Revolution Transatlantic cable Newspaper
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United States 1776 Haiti 1791
Political Revolutions
France 1789 Venezuela 1811
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Ideologies and Society Conservatism •Edmund Burke •Congress of Vienna •Metternich
Nationalism •Identity and state linked •Cultural heritage stressed. •Unification movements •Independence movements
Liberalism •John Stuart Mill •Napoleon •Universal suffrage •Improved working conditions.
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