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Anyone Can Write History

“Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it” – Oscar Wilde   Over the past 300 years, humans have taken major technological steps, advancing us to the high-tech community seen today. Simple mechanizations such as seed drills during the Agricultural Revolution paved the way for the machine guns used in World War I that killed thousands upon thousands of soldiers who were only pawns in an intergovernmental struggle. Warfare soon became a major part of economy because of thesupplies needed to support a military in battle. War would be nothing it is today without the scientific discoveries of the past 300 years. Economic and technological advances paved the way for nuclear war.   At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, agricultural methods were becoming more and more efficient. The Enclosure Movement allowed smaller landholdings to be made into more efficient holdings. New technology was being used for agriculture, such as crop rotation, Jethro Tull’s seed drill, and the use of bronze and iron to replace wood. These new concepts called for fewer laborers, so there was a massive migration to the cities where jobs were opening up left and right due to the rise of industry. Mechanization brought jobs that required little skill and were very dangerous. Steam engines took the place of manual labor, and the number of skilled jobs decreased dramatically. Men of trade could no longer find work to support their families, and now it was up to the women and children to brave the dangers of factory work. During this economic revolution, the middle class emerged and flourished. These people were classified as having large homes, possessing an education, and having a higher social status that most others. All this mass industrialization caused a serious uneven distribution of wealth.   Karl Marx came up with his own belief on how to correct this uneven distribution of wealth—socialism. Marx believed that the government for the benefit of the citizens should...

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