Practice question · True or false
The Industrial Revolution had a single clear cause that historians agree on.
Hints
- Ask whether any single factor is sufficient by itself.
- The debate is about weighting, not about identifying one cause.
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False
Why
No monocausal explanation works. Energy, technology, institutions, markets, culture, and geography all contributed, the debate is about relative weights, not a single cause.
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