In class we referred to the period of the last 200 years as a miraculous period
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In class we referred to the period of the last 200 years as a miraculous period where a large percentage of the population of humans on the earth was lifted out of abject poverty and caused you (yes, you) to become infinitely richer than the common man from 200 years ago.
Why has this happened? Describe the importance of the age of enlightenment to making growth possible.
Why was the industrial revolution so important to human progress of the last 200 years?
What other factors have improved along with income?
Why, particularly, has violence fallen across the developed world?
Explanation / Answer
From last 200 yeras world has witnessed a drastic change in every aspect. Economically the man powers over the world by enmassing a huge chunk of wealth . The nations which were in abject poverty has rise over to dominance in economic releam. Economic growth over the last 200 years completely transformed our world, and poverty fell continuously over the last two centuries. This is even more remarkable when we consider that the population increased 7-fold over the same time (which in itself is a consequence of increasing living standards and decreasing mortality – especially of infants and children – around the world). Now we see the major economic powers like USA sharing the largest proportion of economic growth.
In 2013 we live in a constanmtly connected world . News feeds and social networking sites keeps us constantly up to date,while internet allows us immediate acess to most of all resources.WE live in high rise and tall buildings and are pushed further and further inland by imminent threat of global warmingnad rising sea level.we travel in petrol hungry cars and watch aeroplanes fly overhead like they were always up there.Countries like AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA prosper while others such as African countries suffer in the most dire of conditions.We are amore connected with techonology and advancedwhich was not 200 years ago.
Economic factors ,political factors ,historical factors and above well discussed factors has made growth possible.
The Industrial Revolution, which took place from the 18th to 19th centuries, was a period during which predominantly agrarian, rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 1700s, manufacturing was often done in people’s homes, using hand tools or basic machines. Industrialization marked a shift to powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production. The iron and textile industries, along with the development of the steam engine, played central roles in the Industrial Revolution, which also saw improved systems of transportation, communication and banking. While industrialization brought about an increased volume and variety of manufactured goods and an improved standard of living for some, it also resulted in often grim employment and living conditions for the poor and working classes.
Science and techonology,medical education,political stablity,economic wealth,mental development of masses which dveloped to vast maximum apart from income that grows.
Reasons for reduction in violence:
One of them is the spread of government, the outsourcing of revenge to a more or less disinterested third party.That tends to ramp down your rates of vendetta and blood feud for all the reasons that we’re familiar with.They have benevolent interest in the welfare of their subject peoples, especially in the early governments. Their motive was closer to the motive of a farmer who doesn’t want his livestock killing each other. Namely, it’s a deadweight loss to him.
A second one is the growth of commerce; opportunities for positive-sum exchange, as opposed to zero-sum plunder. When it’s cheaper to buy something than to steal it, that changes the incentives, and you get each side valuing the other more alive than dead—the theory of gentle commerce [that comes] from the Enlightenment.
The third is called the Humanitarian Revolution, took off with the Enlightenment. Governments and churches had long maintained order by punishing nonconformists with mutilation, torture and gruesome forms of execution, such as burning, breaking, disembowelment, impalement and sawing in half. The 18th century saw the widespread abolition of judicial torture, including the famous prohibition of "cruel and unusual punishment" in the eighth amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The fourth major transition is the respite from major interstate war that we have seen since the end of World War II. Historians sometimes refer to it as the Long Peace.
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