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The Industrial Revolution and the Transition of Non-Renewable Energy
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on February 28, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
wastelands, single, speeds, colonies, agriculture, balance, exported, environment, windfall, medals, productivity, equivalent, animals, arable, inexpensive, windmill, non, globalization, 1770s, Egypt, eating, local, plants, energy, textiles
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Adam Smith called those worlds that Europe was occupying "                    "
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their potential was latent
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to turn them into productive assets it would take:
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colonization
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settlement
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privatization
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the transformation of wastelands into fertile,              lands
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a kind of ecological                 
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in the same way silver had been a windfall in an earlier cycle of European expansion
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created radically new opportunities to
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improve diet
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shape everyday life in Europe
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the backdrop to the industrial revolution
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industrial revolution
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was neither particularly industrial or revolutionary except at the end of the process
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had much to do with                       
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was nothing that happened in a given year as the word revolution often refers to in the 19th and 20th centuries
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transformation
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not just in manufacturing
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transportation
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agriculture
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services
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taking place in all sectors of the European and neo-European economies
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energy harvesting
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in a sense began with the                  around the year 1200
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culminated with James Watt's steam engine in the           
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energy from wind to coal
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the cumulative switch from the humble windmill
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the switch from renewable to       -renewable energy sources was a powerful one
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a movement away from the reliance of plants and                for an energy source
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ultimately animals relied on plants for an energy source to keep themselves going
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mining stores of energy in minerals
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two breakthroughs
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previously all outputs are drawn from the system that require                      inputs
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horses require energy that they consume by              in the field
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there was a fundamental limitation to the amount of energy you could get from the                       
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you had to put              back into the ground for the horses to eat to get energy again
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the inorganic world would free humans from the necessity of this basic               
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taking coal from the ground was a way of breaking the natural balance that had to be observed
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improvements in production methods in this new inorganic world
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             could be controlled once you harnessed energy
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variables were easier to manipulate
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result was a massive upturn in productivity growth rates
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clearest in the production of cotton                 
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1770-1790 output increased ten-fold while the price decreased by 90%
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one of the hallmarks of this age is that machines could be produced which could augment the productivity of a              man, in a factory
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combine this new use of energy with this new technology intensifying the internal division of labor
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the industrial revolution could be called a "                         revolution"
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coal and eventually oil had to be gotten from far away
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you now have a whole sector of the economy devoted to finding             
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the basic goods that went into producing new products often came from the                 , e.g. cotton from the American South, Brazil or           
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out of Europe would emerge, as a result of this revolution,                        cotton goods
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these could be                 
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Europe used to rely on exporting precious              to Asia in return for prized commodities, but now they could export inexpensively produced products
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had to find markets to sell cotton textiles
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began to compete with            producers of textiles
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an early example of                           
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countries and regions in Europe began to specialize in the product of manufactured goods, and the colonies specialized in basic goods

Ideas and Concepts:

The broader impact of the industrial revolution, via tonight's History since 1300 class:

"The industrial revolution was in many ways not particularly industrial, except perhaps at the end of the process, and it was nothing that happened in a given year as did other revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries. In a sense, it began with the windmill around the year 1200 and culminated with James Watt's steam engine in the 1770s, a transformation that replaced renewable energy with non-renewable energy.

Previously all outputs that were drawn from the natural system required equivalent inputs. Horses required energy to produce work, and that energy had to be restored back into the ground in the form of plants, and so there was a fundamental limitation to the amount of energy you could get from the environment. This was fundamentally changed by the steam engine which allowed the inorganic world to free humans from the necessity of this basic balance.

So understanding James Watt's steam engine as the beginning of the industrial revolution, while not false, misses the more profound impact that the steam engine had on commencing what for humans and the world one might call the non-renewable transformation."
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