The Industrial Revolution

2. One of the other European countries the Industrial Revolution spread to
4. This encouraged industrial development because the profits from trade were invested in industry
5. Part of the upper class and these people received high incomes from their agricultural holdings
7. An aspect of the Agricultural revolution, growing a series of different types of crops in the same area across a sequence of growing seasons
8. This meant that products could be produced more quickly and in greater quantities for a cheaper price
9. This became the new source of energy that drove the new machines
11. living conditions improved, increases in food production and advances in hygiene and medicine all led to this
12. In this new society, people's status depended on their wealth and their job, rather than on their family background
13. A long slow process through which technological advances led to dramatic economic changes
14. Some key elements in this country's industrialisation were the construction of an excessive railway network, its naval industry and mineral resources
15. This revolution abolished the privileges of the nobility and the clergy and brought about the legal end of the estates system

1. Another word for industrial workers, people who worked in factories
3. Each worker was responsible for a different part of the production process
6. This industry became important in Spain in the mid 19th century and was established in Cataluña with imported British machinery
10. This source of energy produces a lot of heat, and was used to melt large quantities of iron in furnaces