Actually brought about food surplus

Transition from hunting and gathering to farming

No longer lived as tribes but became small villages

Permanent Settlements

Increased free time led to specialization

Examples include: Religion, Art, Language, and Government

Trade of Agricultural Crops, Culture, and Disease

Old World(Europe) and the new World(The Americas)

Disease killed the majority of the Natives

Crops like the tomato and the potato became staples in Europe

Old World crops like sugar cane grew better in the Americas

Labor demands intiated and sustained the slave trade

New technology such as the cotton gin, spinning jenny, and steam engine

Rural villages transformed to industrial towns

Massive Urbanization driven by factory jobs

Absurdly ridiculous amounts of pollution

24 hour work day, child labor, dangerous working conditions, women in the workforce etc.

Began in England due to resources such as coal, water, and labor readily available as well as the innovations

Political Map of Africa drawn by European powers

Berlin, Germany

Driven by industrialization, demand for more resources needed for manufacturing

Imperial countries concerned about resources, not the Africans already there

Common cultural groups separated, warring tribes brought together

A region of extreme diversity