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In 2012, the head of AP Grading, Trevor Packer, stated that the reason for the low percentages of 5s is that "AP World History is a college-level course, & many sophomores aren't yet writing at that level." 10.44 percent of all seniors who took the exam in 2012 received a 5, while just 6.62 percent of sophomores received a 5.
Some social revolutions are global in scope, while others are limited to single countries. Commonly cited examples of social revolution are the Industrial Revolution, Scientific Revolution, Commercial Revolution, and Digital Revolution. These revolutions also fit the "slow revolution" type identified by Tocqueville. [24]
This new technology improved dramatically; locomotives soon reached speeds of 50 miles per hour. While the railroads revolutionized transportation, they further contributed to the growth of the industrial revolution by causing a great increase in the demand for iron and coal. [31]
One such example is an attempt by Daniel Šmihulato to suggest a timeline of technological revolutions in pre-modern Europe: [8] Indo-European technological revolution (1900–1100 BC) Celtic and Greek technological revolution (700–200 BC) Germano-Slavic technological revolution (300–700 AD) Medieval technological revolution (930–1200 AD)
For example, workers in the United States were once well paid in comparison to those in other countries. With the advent of the Information Age and improvements in communication, this is no longer the case, as workers must now compete in a global job market , whereby wages are less dependent on the success or failure of individual economies.
The Red Guards, the group of Finnish revolutionaries during the 1918 Finnish Civil War in Tampere, Finland. The term—both as a noun and adjective—is usually applied to the field of politics, but is also occasionally used in the context of science, invention or art.
Old Japanese weapons and other military paraphernalia, c. 1892–95 A Gilbertese shark-toothed weapon (late 19th century). Major innovations in the history of weapons have included the adoption of different materials – from stone and wood to different metals, and modern synthetic materials such as plastics – and the developments of different weapon styles either to fit the terrain or to ...
HMS Dreadnought was a Royal Navy battleship, the design of which revolutionised naval power.The ship's entry into service in 1906 represented such an advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships, the dreadnoughts, as well as the class of ships named after her.