... factors that gave rise to the Age of Exploration were the rapid population explosion, the decline of feudalism and the craving for spreading religion. Part of the reason for Europe attempting to expand was the sudden population explosion. Europe's population nearly doubled between the years of 1500 and 1650. Cities grew before the population as a result of people moving from the countryside to cities. ... London's population grew from 50,000 in 1500 to 200,000 people in 1650. This new ... population increase, contributed new workers and expanded the economy. The increase also helped to ...

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... handicraft production movement thus farmers were still very crucial to France's agricultural sector of economy. There was a relatively slow growth of factory industry and there had been low rates of population growth. France was late with their industrial improvements and was behind Britain by forty years. They already had a nation to model their own revolution from and their coal output ... doubled in the early 1850's. Inevitably France was better for the working class that did not have as much dependence on the government because of their independent family units in terms ... the fa...

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... some kind of factory or business. For most countries the amount of people living in urban areas almost doubled during and after industrialization. An example of this rising urban population is England. Before the industrial revolution England only had around 25 percent of the population living in the cities, but during and after the industrial revolution it rose to almost 55 percent of ... the population living in urban areas. Also in Germany and Prussia their urban population in 1816 was 26 percent and by the end of the revolution it grew to around 50 percent. Mass urbanization helped ...

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