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Part Three - Capitalism & Consumerism Capitalism The innovations created a world where private investors could take risks. Risks that paid off brought in a lot of money and lead to the opportunity for further successful gambles. These gambles lead to a lot of people becoming wealthy members of society. Imported goods became available for many. Coffee, tobacco, chocolate, china, pineapples, sugar, tea, all became available to more and more people. The more people buying it in England meant the owner of the company had more money to spend on importing more sugar and so on. The more importers getting rich the more stores they might open. They'll hire more people to sell their products. This means people lower down the line also make more money. The new farming technology meant that farms could produce more food. The more food the less people who went hungry. The less people hungry meant people were living longer and the population was growing. The more people the greater dem

Part One - What was the Industrial Revolution? 1820 - England - similar to life for 800 years Work on a farm Pull your own cart or have a cow or horse No running water- village pump No electricity Cook in pots over fire Wash clothes by hand in tubs or river Think of time as how close to morning or night it is Messenger pigeons 1920- England Most people don't work on farms (Shops, transport, mining, factories) Measure time in minutes Cars and tractors exsist. Trains run everywhere. Most people have electricity. Radios exist, sending messages through the air. People cooked over stoves. Some people have refrigerators. Clean drinking water came into your house through pipes. People now had machines to wash their clothes. The telegram could cross the Atlantic in minutes. What was the industrial Revolution? The industrial Revolution is defined as a time in history where production of goods increased dramatically. This increase was caused by new inventions har

Plato was a wrestler. The name by which we know him was his ring name, meaning ‘Broad Shoulders’. At some point he fell in with a scruffy and talkative old fellow called Socrates. Socrates and his friends used to gather in the Agora – the marketplace in Athens – to discuss philosophy. Socrates himself claimed to know nothing, but made a habit of questioning prominent citizens about their opinions, dialogues which often ended with his victims hopelessly contradicting themselves or otherwise looking like idiots. This made him about as popular as you would expect.  When Socrates was put to death, Plato was disappointed with Athenian life and travelled throughout Italy, Egypt and Greece for 12 years. Plato led a lively and adventurous life, which included being appointed advisor to the tyrant of Sicily, being captured by pirates and being sold as a slave. (Fortunately a benefactor spotted him in the slave auction, bought him and set him free.) Socrates’ enraged followers reacte