Please help me answer the following question based on the course outline and the text professor required. (around 400 words each question)
The phenomenon known as the Industrial Revolution was the culmination of a process that came together in the 1700-1800 period once a critical mass of circumstances came together is something like a "Perfect Storm." It is easy to describe what occurred, much more difficult to explain why it occurred, and why it occurred where and when it did." Discuss.
Here is the course outline and text required:
1. Introduction to World Economic History to 1800
2. The First Economic Revolution: The Agricultural Revolution 10000-4000BC
3. The Economic Rise and Decline of Ancient Civilizations, 4000BC-500AD
4. The Medieval World Economy 500-1500
5. The Early Modern World Economy and the Ascent of the West 1500-1750 6. The Second Economic Revolution: The Industrial Revolution 1750-1800
Required Text for this course:
Ian Morris, Why the West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and What TheyReveal About the Future. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2010
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York:Norton, 1999Robert
Allen, The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective: Cambridge UK:Cambridge University Press, 2009