From 1750 onwards a new industry emerged in Britain - the production of cotton cloth. Wool production had previously been Britain's major industry, but cotton had one key advantage - machinery could process cotton fibres better than wool.
An engraving showing slaves picking cotton on a plantation in North America
As a result it was in cotton production that the industrial revolution began, particularly in and around Manchester. The cotton used was mostly imported from slave plantations. Slavery provided the raw material for industrial change and growth.
The growth of the Atlantic economy was an integral part of the growth of exports - for example manufactured cotton cloth was exported to Africa.
The Atlantic economy can be seen as the spark for the biggest change in modern economic history. The Atlantic economy in the 1700s was founded on slave labour.
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Explanation:
The eastern had never approved
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The Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line demanded that Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi return to Iran for trial and execution. The U.S. maintained that the Shah – who was to die less than a year later, in July 1980 – had come to America for medical attention.
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Phileas Fogg is a name synonymous with world adventure! Which statement below is false for the real-life inspiration behind this memorable character?
He was one of the first Americans to travel through the interior of Japan.
He traveled by train from Cleveland to San Francisco
He was born in Exeter, on the river Exe
He visited Baghdad
Answer: He was born in Exeter, on the river Exe
Explanation:
Phileas Fogg was the main character of the novel Around the World in Eighty Days (1872), by Jules Verne. This character was based on William Perry Fogg, a widely known American adventurer. William was born in Exeter, a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, in the United States; not on the city by the same name on the River Exe in England.
