A positive effect of the Industrial Revolution was the decrease in prices. Before the Industrial Revolution people had worked at home on farms or in small workshops. Making cloth was done entirely by hand which caused clothes to be more expensive. This meant that most people had 1 shirt and 1 pant. In the 1700s people began buying more and more goods, so textile traders began to look for faster and cheaper ways of producing clothes. The decrease in prices came from the introduction of machines such as the spinning jenny which spun 8 threads at a time, the flying shuttle which increased the speed of weaving, and the water frame which was a large spinning machine driven by…
Tuscana Gold Mine, New England Gold Field in Mount Vernon
One of the main reasons why Germany and Japan suffered most extensively during the Great Depression was because "Germany and Japan suffer most extensively during the Great Depression," since Germany had been blamed for the war, and Japan had very few natural resources.
For the answer to the question above, the Iberian middle classes were reduced by twenty percent as a result of emigration to New World colonies.
Eurasian populations were decimated by over fifty percent as a result of the spread of the bubonic plague.
Native American societies slightly increased by ten percent from intermarriage with European conquerors.
<span>Native American societies were reduced by ninety percent as a result of European infectious disease.</span>
