AP World Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization

Around 1764, weaver and carpenter James Hargreaves, living near Blackburn in Lancashire, England, invented the spinning jenny — a frame allowing one worker to spin eight threads of cotton…

This uprising unfolded on Saint-Domingue — the western portion of Hispaniola, the large Caribbean island shared today with the Dominican Republic, lying between Cuba to the northwest and Puerto Rico…

This was Vienna, Austria — a city cradled in the Alpine foothills of Central Europe, where the Danube River begins its great eastward sweep toward the Black Sea. In 1815, the major European powers…

This is Algiers, the coastal capital of Algeria, sitting on the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea — directly across the water from southern France and Spain, with the Atlas Mountains rising…

London, the capital of the United Kingdom, sits on the River Thames in southeastern England — on the northwest edge of Europe, where the Thames broadens toward the North Sea. In 1833, the British…

This is Canton — today called Guangzhou — in southern China, sitting at the head of the Pearl River delta where it opens into the South China Sea, exactly the coastal gateway the title clue…

This catastrophe struck Ireland — the large island lying in the North Atlantic directly west of Britain, separated from it by the Irish Sea. Beginning in 1845, a potato blight caused total crop…

This discovery was made at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California, USA — a small settlement on the American River, tucked between the Sierra Nevada mountains to the east and the Pacific coast to the…

This uprising erupted in Guangzhou, a major port city in southern China, sitting in the Pearl River delta just inland from the South China Sea — exactly the southern interior region where rebel…

Gold was discovered at Ballarat, in the colony of Victoria, in August 1851, triggering one of the great gold rushes of the nineteenth century. Through the 1850s and 1860s hundreds of thousands of…

This event unfolded in Guangzhou, China — the great port city where the Pearl River delta opens onto the South China Sea, on the southern edge of the world's most populous country. In the Second…

This is Meerut, a garrison city on the great Gangetic plain of northern India — sitting exactly where the Himalayan foothills flatten into the wide, river-laced lowlands that stretch toward the Bay…

London, the capital of the United Kingdom, sits on the River Thames in southeastern England — the large island off northwestern Europe's Atlantic coast, separated from France by the English Channel…

This event unfolded in Tokyo, the capital of Japan — an island nation curving along the western Pacific, separated from the Asian continent by the Sea of Japan. In 1868, Emperor Meiji was restored to…

This event unfolded in Ulundi, in what is now KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa — on the southeastern edge of the African continent where interior grasslands slope toward the Indian Ocean. In 1879, British…

This is Khartoum, the capital of modern Sudan, sitting precisely at the confluence of the Blue Nile and the White Nile in the heart of northeastern Africa — exactly the Nile junction the title…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard of North America — on the Potomac River where the Appalachian foothills give way to the Atlantic coastal plain…

This is Cairo, Egypt — where the Nile delta fans out into the Mediterranean at the northeastern edge of Africa, just north of the narrow isthmus pierced by the Suez Canal linking the Red Sea to the…

The event took place in Berlin, Germany — a city sitting on the broad North European Plain, roughly midway between the Rhine River to the west and the Oder River to the east, deep in the heart of the…

This battle took place at Adwa, in northern Ethiopia — on the high plateau of the Horn of Africa, where the continent's northeastern corner reaches toward the Arabian Peninsula across the Red Sea and…

This event unfolded in Manila Bay, in the Philippines — an archipelago of over 7,000 islands sitting where the western Pacific meets the South China Sea, east of mainland Asia and north of Indonesia…

This event unfolded in Beijing, the capital of China — a city seated on the North China Plain where the Yellow River's basin stretches south and the Mongolian plateau rises to the north. In…

This conflict was centered on Manila, the capital of the Philippines — an archipelago of over 7,000 islands strung across the western Pacific, southeast of mainland Asia and separated from it by the…

The conflict centered on Manchuria — the broad, flat, river-laced plain in what is now northeastern China, wedged between the Korean peninsula to the south and the Russian Far East to the north, with…