Seventh Century Dbq

The Industrial Revolution was a shift from the domestic system to the factory system; it led to the mass production of goods and an abundance of jobs. Like everything in this world, this transition had its advantages and disadvantages. But ultimately it led to the way we produce goods as we know it. The Enclosure Acts shifted the domestic system to the factory system flipping the world upside down.

Between 1865 and 1900 American agriculture was changed through things like, government policy, technology, and economic conditions. Through 1865 and 1900, the market of agriculture experienced political adjustments in management of the land by the government whom increased prices and controlled land sales. Government also regulated economic changes with the debut of up and coming equipment and technology that greatly influenced the growth of the farming business. Many farmers reaction to the decline in agriculture due to the political and economic alterations was to become more involved in government and politics in order to favor laws that would benefit the agriculture society.

Hammurabi Hammurabi was a man who became a ruler of people: 1,000,000 people! He ruled a place called Babylonia, for 42 years. A god of justice, named Shamash asked Hammurabi if he would write a code of 282 laws on a stele for him. (BGE) Hammurabi did what he was told to do, and that stele can be found in a museum today. Hammurabi’s code: was it just?

Mercantilism was a system that encouraged Americans to trade among themselves instead of with outside powers by not taxing American Merchants and instead taxing merchants to import. Mercantilism aided in the development of America because America’s new economy and markets were sheltered from massive and foreign companies allowing a massive rate of growth for America's economy. The process of taxing foreign companies is known as protectionism which is directly involved with mercantilism and the strong belief in profitable trading that America possessed at the time. All three of these factors allowed America to grow at an extremely unprecedented rate in religion, politics, and

Trade increased during and after the Crusades due to paths being made from Europe to Asia. Trade increased during the late 1400’s due to new trade routes being forged over seas. Merchants could now sail from Europe to India as well as the Americas. New trade companies were created and the economy boomed. But in both cases disease was also spread.

Factory systems were so good because of the efficiency, productivity, and quality control of a factory was because of the division of labor. This was a process by which the key tasks in manufacturing were identified and assigned to individual workers to specialize, perfect and repeat with dispatch. Introduction of financial innovations such as stock markets, joint stock companies, and national banks were all instruments for a new free-market economic system that had been evolving over centuries. The feudal system was the old system. Buyers and sellers (private business owners) satisfy their own interests by voluntarily agreeing to exchange money for a product.

The Atlantic world from 1492 to 1750 experienced economic and social transformations due to new contacts among the major continents that bordered the Atlantic Ocean. Western Europe, Africa, and the Americas saw dramatic economic and social changes caused by the slave trade, the increase of trade, and the Europeans “discovery” of America. The Atlantic world experienced great Economic changes created by the new global connections established between continents that allowed the expansion of trades, slave trades, and the claiming of land. Due to the new found connections the participants of trade all over the world brought home new goods, mainly from Europe, and materials previously never seen before or goods they were in need of.

This led the European powers to go out of their territories to seek help or relief to their problems, since there was an increase in machinery use it tend to affect the production of raw material and other parts of agriculture. The decrease in raw material production meant the states where unable to provide enough food for its population so there was a need for the market, not only for the production of raw material but for food to sustain the

This was due of the lack of people and the excessive unwanted products the result was an income loss to all parties involved in trade. The down fall of the merchants caused a domino effect which caused everyone they had business with to fall with

Cuneiform was a system of writing created in Mesopotamia around 3,000 BCE. Scribes used a reed to make “wedge shaped” indentations on a clay tablet. Cuneiform started as way of keeping track of business transactions but was later used to create alphabets for the languages spoken in Ancient Mesopotamia. The Code of Hammurabi (discussed later) was written in cuneiform.

During the 18th century the slave trade prospered. Europeans manipulated Africans from the coast to attack nearby tribes and take captives (slaves). The slaves were exchanged for goods like guns and cloth. They were then shipped across the Atlantic in horrifying conditions. In spite of this the British forbidden the slave trade in 1807.

His agricultural reform successfully alternated the revolutionary beliefs of some of the peasants by passing a law to finally end redemption

The way that this was done was through social reforms such as

" Journal of Global History 1.01 (2006): 123-149. This report explains how the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had an impact on the economies of both societies. Price acts as evidence and depicts that it had major impact across all nations of the world. British began to take controls of the seas and hence, it showed how much of an interconnected world economy we are a part of.

Throughout the twentieth century, countries were creating treaties, trade blocs and global governance institutes to promote open market and free trade. Europe’s golden age of trade with very low tariff and high economic development began mid-19th century and collapsed