History Vocabualry

Population Revolution – Huge growth in popultion in Western Europe beginning about 1730; prelude to Industrial Revolution; population of France increased 50 percent, England and Prussia 100 percent

Population revolution improved nutrition resulting from the growing use of the potato.

Proto-industrialization – Preliminary shift away from agricultural economy in Europe; workers become full or part-time producers of textile and metal products, working at home but in a capitalist system in which materials, work orders, and ultimate sales depended on urban merchants; prelude...