The period 1730-1850 was one of, if not the most influential periods of human progress. This era gave us many of the fundamental things we see around us today, from our current wealth-based system to the use of unions. It gave us the engine, it gave us a global economy. The Industrial Revolution was and is extremely important. In the space of 5 generations, man has gone from farming to earn a living to operating gigantic machines. Man has moved from an unorganized group of warring peoples to a global economy. The Industrial Revolution truly propelled humanity into its next step into the future. The Industrial Revolution was brought about by three major changes in Europe. The "Agrarian Revolution", the population boom, then the "Energy Revolution", the "Agrarian Revolution" providing the raw materials, the population boom providing the workers and buyers, and the "Energy Revolution", providing new technologies and sources of energy. to supply factories. All of these things were essential to creating a great industrial revolution based on production and manufacturing. The "Agrarian Revolution" was the boost to agriculture before the Industrial Revolution and caused the Industrial Revolution due to the creation of a large amount of surplus raw materials, ranging from textiles and food to crops including livestock can feed. This also allowed for a large increase in population, since food was more plentiful and cheaper. This was generally due to better agricultural practices in Europe, from the use of dikes and dams by the Dutch to the mixing of cultivated land in Britain. This caused a huge increase in population, enabling both workers and buyers in the emerging market economy. This increase in population has been drastic... middle of paper ...... food to live on. The new increased amount of processed raw materials allowed England to become a much more export-based economy. from Asia, South America and Africa, were widely consumed. Grains entered the country in years of scarcity and left in years of abundance. People, migrants and tourists, came and went. Capital flowed in and out of the country with ease.23Another boost to the economy of this period was the strange absence of wars. Between 1760 and 1815, only two short periods of peace (excluding the American Revolution) punctuated an otherwise long period of wars, blockades and embargoes, due to England's colonization of the Americas and the presence of commercial ports in various regions24. real money in the economy goes to business rather than taxes, enabling unprecedented growth in the private sector.