Imagine a world in witch the industrial revolution never happened?  What would be different?  What would be the same?

 

Do you think the industrial revolution was bound to happen because of human nature or any other factor, or did it just came about by chance? Explain why and what evidence do you have to support this?

 

Compare the European industrial revolution to what you know about china and India at the time, and speculate why the industrial revolution happened in Europe first.

 

Compare life of lower class people to before the industrial revolution to the life of the lower class now.  Did the industrial revolution help or hurt the lower class?

 

Evaluate the impact the industrial revolution had on world wide colonization.

 

Compare warfare from before the industrial revolution to warfare afterwards and in the modern age.  What has changed? And is it for the better?