History / Levels 9 and 10 / Historical Knowledge / The making of the modern world / Industrial Revolution (1750 – 1914)
Content description
Causes that led to the Industrial Revolution, and other conditions and ideas that influenced the industrialisation of Britain and of Australia
Elaborations
explaining why the agricultural revolution including access to raw materials, wealthy middle class, cheap labour, transport system, and expanding empire caused the Industrial Revolution
mapping the British Empire c.1800 CE and the raw materials it obtained from colonies, for example, sugar from Jamaica, wool from Australia, and cotton from India
explaining changes in technology, for example steam-driven spinning mills, railways and steam ships, which led to factories and cities
identifying the spread of innovations such as steam power, iron and steel production, transport; and chemicals in Europe, USA and Japan
Code
VCHHK129
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