The English Civil War: The Industrial Revolution

Nicholas Brown

Beshwate

History 104

Feb 28 2017

Question 1

The English civil war was a battle for power over taxes and laws and the religious state of the people in the country. The monarchy was trying to rule without the consent of parliament as an absolute monarch with divine rights. Parliament was just trying to hold their power and keep the traditional government and uphold the rights of the people they rule.the battle was between the royalist and the parliament.charles the first tries to impose his religion on Scottland and Scottland revolts and attacks England so charles goes to parliament to ask for money to defend the country they deny him. now the parliament also know as the round heads lead by Oliver cromwell the royalist

are now at war. Eventually the kill Charles and Cliver Cromwell names himself Lord Protector and starts to do the same things Charles was doing like imposing his religion on the people and dissolves the parliament. after his death in 1658 england became a constitutional monarchy this change the course of european history and the world

Question 2

The industrial revolution was an age of mass production that changed the path of history with great technological advances.

Some of the initial change are that before these advances you were either a farmer or you had a trade like blacksmithing or basket weaving. There was a big jump in the job market for unskilled labor. Due to the fact that it was unskilled labor many children were used for dangerous jobs like cleaning machinery people were moving from the farms into urban areas. Machinery replaced some craftspeople and changed the role of women in the household, clothing was now made in textile mills watch use to be the job of the woman in the family. The economy was great for everyone above the lower middle class but the low classes were paid low wages and placed in dangerous work environments.

The long term effects of the industrial revolution is that we would not live in the world we now know. The industrial revolution made the population grow exponentially due to advancements in agriculture and health of the human body . Also it is a key factor in the present role of women in the workforce and in the home.

Section two question

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The scientific revolution was more of an awakening a change in the way of thinking.people started moving away from the ideas of the church and started to use deductive reasoning and the scientific method to change the ideas and views of the time dramatically as stated in the video by Bighist320fall2010 “logic and reason replaced age old beliefs and faith”this really upset the church. Galileo is one of the key contributors to the scientific revolution and was actually tried for his theories,he had to renounce his theories or be burned at the steak .most of the advances in the beginning where about astronomy.

The most notarized and influential thinkers of the scientific revolution include Copernicus, who is best known for theorizing that the sun is the center of the universe, and that everything revolves around it. Before that theory, the common belief was that the earth was the center of the solar system, which was the accepted claim at the time. Galileo Galilei ,another key contributor later expanded upon Copernicus's theories when he improved the design of the telescope that made it possible to see new features in the solar system. For example he discovered four of jupiter’s moons. Galileo is also credited as the inventor of modern physics.our third and final key contributor is a man by the name of Sir Isaac Newton known for his theories of gravity and the story of the apple that fell from the tree. There is many things that he is not very well known; for example he is responsible for the discovery of calculus and he also is responsible for the theories of the laws of motion. He was also an astronomer. His studies of the cosmos helped lead the people away from the heliocentric solar system which plays a large part in the way we view our world today.

The scientific revolution and the many minds that contributed to it impacted western civilization in numerous ways.it impacted how people viewed the world around them and cosmos. It also made people in that time and into the future not trust in blind faith as much but more in reason and the scientific method. Without These changes we probably would not have a lot of the technologies that we have today like the automobile or the cell phone or electricity or they would have taken a lot longer to be discovered. This discovery where the foundation that allowed the human race to rapidly progress in science,technology and engineering. the scientific revolution eventually lead to the industrial revolution due to inventions like the steam engine invented by Thomas Savery .

Section two question two a constitutional monarchy is a form of government where the king or queen have limited power.the only time the monarch has power is when there is a state of emergency.other than that parliament or some form of legislation are placed to restrict the power of the monarchy and regulate things like taxes and laws.the constitutional monarchy came about due to prior king's trying to rule as absolute monarchs with divine rights and immunities.most of the time the king also tried to force a certain religion on the people in the land with the threat of death if they did not conform.These events eventually lead to revolutions and the beheading of the monarchs.

Works used

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR3rcWZmvws&t=166s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Savery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell