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Start a new production line of stronger and more agile ships known as the Dreadnought
<span>The economic and social crises chipped away at the foundations of Medieval society in the 1300s and 1400s. Wars raged constantly during this time. The conditions were ripe for great social changes.</span>
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According some authors which discuss this theme there were some factors as:
1) At the middle of 1850 the Chinese were still under British rule and the conditions were very difficult.
2) The devastation of southern Chinese by the taiping rebellion. This destroyed the rural economy and killed more than twenty millions people.
3) The gold was discovered in California in 1848. It produced a big immigrations at the final of century 17th.