To date historians and economists have supplied an extended checklist of attainable reasons as to why this profound change happened in the mid 1700's. It's the contention of this article that the real causes turn into obvious when the historical past preceding it is seen from a sociological, political and psychological perspective slightly than a purely financial perspective. It is the contention of this text that the historic empires right up to the 1600's remained agricultural based mostly with sluggish inhabitants growth ensuing from high start and loss of life rates. The Church found Galileo responsible of heresy and sentenced him to home arrest where he remained for the remainder of his life. Although he was not sentenced to dying like Socrates, he suffered drastically by having his life's work wrongly rejected by the Church and being sentenced to house arrest. However management by the "divine right of kings" was not easily damaged and it could take another 100 years after Galileo's demise for the Industrial Revolution to start in Britain. The Thirty Year War had shown that the teachings of the church and management by numerous rulers had solely resulted in disease, dying and destruction.

To date historians and economists have supplied an extended checklist of attainable reasons as to why this profound change happened in the mid 1700's. It's the contention of this article that the real causes turn into obvious when the historical past preceding it is seen from a sociological, political and psychological perspective slightly than a purely financial perspective. It is the contention of this text that the historic empires right up to the 1600's remained agricultural based mostly with sluggish inhabitants growth ensuing from high start and loss of life rates. The Church found Galileo responsible of heresy and sentenced him to home arrest where he remained for the remainder of his life. Although he was not sentenced to dying like Socrates, he suffered drastically by having his life's work wrongly rejected by the Church and being sentenced to house arrest. However management by the "divine right of kings" was not easily damaged and it could take another 100 years after Galileo's demise for the Industrial Revolution to start in Britain. The Thirty Year War had shown that the teachings of the church and management by numerous rulers had solely resulted in disease, dying and destruction.