The best option from the list in terms of why the Industrial Revolution started in England would be that "<span>a. It had a growing population and large deposits of coal and iron," since this large population was used to great advantage in the factories. </span>
At a Director's Forum with General Dallaire, the Canadian Commander of the UN peacekeeping forces in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, and author of the recently published Shake Hands with The Devil, Dallaire provided a vivid account of his experience in Rwanda and of the international community's failure to intervene.
A historian using the historical thinking skill of examining historiography might want to pay close attention to how the thinking about a certain historical period has changed over time, in light of new evidence.
