First Industrial Revolution (1 gen 1760 anni – 1 gen 1840 anni)

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- Focused on chemicals, electricity, precision machinery, the telegraph, telephone, rubber and printing
- Extraction of nonrenewable resources altered landscape
- Sewers and industrial waste emptied into rivers
- Smoke from coal-fired industries and domestic use polluted air
- The importance of agriculture shrank
- Money became the basis of wealth, not land
- Urbanization->greater population in cities->overcrowded, unsanitary->low life expectancy
- Terrible working conditions

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