Answer:
The Industrial Revolution transformed economies that had been based on agriculture and handicrafts into economies based on large-scale industry, mechanized manufacturing, and the factory system.
Explanation:
New machines, new power sources, and new ways of organizing work made existing industries more productive and efficient.
This is of course a subjective question, but there are probably two aspects which can contribute to being a good politician
- good education (either from a university or self-taught) about the history (both of country and of the world), economics politics and social studies
- good connection to the life of average people: being raised in a poor area, visiting poor areas more frequently: not to loose "contact with reality" and to know the citizens' actual needs.