1. Change Analysis Chart Era 4
1750 C.E. – 1914 C.E.

2. Human Environment Interaction
Beginning of the period: 1750 C.E.
Industrial Revolution: agricultural output had increased again, freeing more people (about ½) for non-farming jobs
New crops: potatoes, corn, from New World, crop rotation, new farm technology for plowing, seeding, and reaping—all increased farm output
Urbanization began: 1800, 20 cities in Europe over 100,000;
Cities developed around resources like coal, iron, water, railroads
End of the period: 1914 C.E.
1900, 150 cities had over 100,000 London had 6 million
Many inventions had changed the environment: telegraph, telephone, lightbulb, internal combustion engine, radio, airplane
Factories--pollution

3. Human Environment Interaction
Key Continuities

4. Human Environment Interaction
Key Changes

5. Culture Beginning of the period: 1750 C.E.
Christianity: Catholicism and Protestantism
Enlightenment in full swing
Europe is center of culture, urbanization created new forms of entertainment: theater, music, art

6. Culture
End of the period: 1914 C.E.

7. Culture
Key Continuities

8. Culture
Key Changes

9. Politics Beginning of the period: 1750 C.E.
Europe: monarchy predominates
U.S.: beginning to throw off Great Britain, start of Constitutional government/democracy (Revolution 1776)
Latin America: still colonized by Spain or Portugal
Africa: some colonial holdings; Ottomans own Egypt
Asia: Manchu Dynasty (till 1800s) in China, Tokugawa in Japan

10. Politics
End of the period: 1914 C.E.

11. Politics
Key Continuities
Key Changes

12. Economics Beginning of the period: 1750 C.E.
Industrialization and urbanization create new social classes
Rise of new economic theories: capitalism, socialism, communism
Formation of labor unions, child labor laws
Search for natural resources: leads to imperialism (Britain in India)
End of the period: 1914 C.E.

13. Economics
Key Continuities
Key Changes

14. Social
Beginning of the period: 1750 C.E.
End of the period: 1914 C.E.

15. Social
Key Continuities

16. Social
Key Changes