Top 10 HISTORY grade 10-12 skills and popular lessons

QUICKLY ABOUT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN GENERAL

• Industrial revolution marks the period of development that transformed rural societies into industrialized, urban ones
• Goods that had been previously crafted by hand started to be produced in mass quantities by machines in factories 
• Steam power was the "game-changing" invention that started the Industrial Revolution from Britain

SECOND PERIOD OF INDUSTRIALIZATION

• From the late 19th to early 20th century cities began to grow 
• Rapid advances such as creation of steel, chemicals and electricity helped to mass produce consumer goods and weapons 
• People started to move around with trains, cars and bicycles 
• News spread via papers, radio and telegraph 
• Industrial growth created wealthy entrepreneurs and comfortable middle class supported by workers who were mainly immigrants 

MIGRATION

Background information:

• Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another
• The patterns of movement reflect the current conditions of the world and the cultural landscapes
• The first migrants were ancient humans who originated in Africa and spread to Eurasia 
  • Most likely these migrants were driven by climate and food factors

Types of human migration:

• Internal migration: moving within a country or a city
• External migration: moving to a different country or continent 
• Emigration: leaving one country so that you can move to another one
• Immigration: moving into a new country
• Return migration: moving back to where you moved from originally
• Seasonal migration: moving to another place because of climate conditions or labor response

Reasons for migration:

• Lack of basic necessities 
• War & terrorism 
• Human rights violations
• Nature disasters 
• State of the economy
• People can also move to another place because of a better climate or more work opportunities 

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