This Fleeting World - Modern (77-83)

Occurred during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, where the crucial changes took place in Britain, and included the introduction of efficient cotton-spinning machines and the Watts steam engine.

• First Wave Industrial Revolution
• Second Wave Industrial Revolution
• Third Wave Industrial Revolution
• Fortieth Wave Industrial Revolution

Provided for the first time an efficient way of exploiting the energy locked up in fossil fuels.

• Water Pump
• Watts Steam Engine
• First Wave Industrial Revolution
• Newcomen Steam Engine

Revolutionized in the late 18th century by new spinning and weaving machines, along with the steam engine.

• Factories
• Industrial Revolution (All Waves)
• Textile Industry
• Coal Industry

Entrepreneurs began to bring workers together into large, closely supervised productive workshops.

• Wage Labor
• Corporate Enterprises
• Textile Industry
• Factory

Innovations that occurred during the early and middle decades of the 19th century, which included steam engines being mounted on the first locomotives, which facilitated greater movement and trade, as transportation costs were slashed by the new railways.

• Second Wave Industrial Revolution
• First Wave Industrial Revolution
• Third Wave Industrial Revolution
• All Wave Industrial Revolution 

Innovations that occurred during the second half of the 19th century, as technologies spread to North America, other parts of Europe, and to Russia and Japan, and new innovations emerged such as steel, chemicals, and electricity.

• Third Wave Industrial Revolution
• First & Second Wave Industrial Revolution
• Third and Forth Wave Industrial Revolution
• Agricultural Revolution

Organizations that brought banks and factories together.

• Horizontal Integration
• Corporate Enterprises
• Vertical Integration
• Dynamic Corporations

Empires that stretched around the globe, across oceans, to far-flung locales.

• Hegemony
• Cultural Imperialism
• Global Imperialism
• Regional Imperialism

The developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

• Third World
• Nonaligned Countries
• Second World
• Newly Industrialized Countries

Era where revolutions swept through the Atlantic world, ushering in history’s first modern democratic systems.

• Industrial Revolution
• Scientific Revolution
• Enlightenment
• The Age of Democratic Revolution