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What revolutions have there been?
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August 5th, 2016
In the history of Earth, what revolutions have there been?
If you need a definition for revolution, please, look it up. The Wikipedia entry is good. A dictionary would be good, too. For simplicity, we could agree that a revolution is any change that fundamentally alters socio-political, economic, or cultural institutions. Or we don’t have to agree.
I believe revolutions are actually quite rare, and I tend to look at very long term alterations. Here are the revolutions I can name:
the Agricultural Revolution,
the Industrial Revolution, and
the rise of elected representative forms of government.
What others are there?
Bonus question: What is the next revolution? It could be argued we are moving into a post-Industrial Revolution or a knowledge-based society. It may even be post-capitalism. It’s still unclear since we’re in the middle of it.
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