Question

Which historical event was greatly responsible for global stratification as we see it today?a. World War I b. The Fall of the British Empire c. The French Revolution d. The Industrial Revolution

Answer 1

The correct answer is letter D

The Industrial Revolution started in a pioneering way in England, from the second half of the 18th century, and this pioneerism is attributed to England for the fact that it was there that the first steam engine appeared, in 1698, built by Thomas Newcomen and perfected by James Watt in 1765. Historian Eric Hobsbawm even believes that the Industrial Revolution was only really started in the 1780s | 1 |

The technological advance characteristic of the Industrial Revolution allowed a great development of machinery aimed at textile production, that is, clothing. With this, a series of machines, such as "Jenny spinning", "spinning frame", "water frame" and "spinning mule", were created to weave threads. With these machines, it was possible to weave a number of threads that would have to be used by several people manually.