1 How do you explain why Britain industrialized before other European nations and non-Western societies such as China?2 What do you think were the three most important inventions of the industrial age? How did they change the production process?3 In what ways did moving from the countryside to the city change people's lives during this period?4 How did industrialization change the environment during the 1800s? What was the environmental impact of specific inventions?5 Why did workers develop a sense of class-consciousness during this period of industrialization?6 Why did the emergence of separate men's and women's spheres accompany industrialization and urbanization?7 Why did conflict develop between middle-class values and the urban and industrial realities facing the working class in this period? What was the nature of that conflict?8 How did the evolution of the middle-class family and the working-class family differ during the 1800s?9 How did urbanization exacerbate existing social problems?10 How and why did the degree of industrialization experienced by individual countries influence the balance of power within Europe?