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What factors led to the industrial revolution? Ag innovations, selective breeding, population increase between 1400 and 1800 in Europe because competative nature, many people had capital, iron, and coal, energy crisis. What new sources of energy began to be used? Fossil fuels, coal, oil, and natural gas The earliest innovations in the industrial revolution were in what industry? The textile Industry What was the greatest technological breakthrough of the industrial revolution? The coal-fired steam engine Explain the two major factors that allowed the industrial revolution to occur in Europe rather than elsewhere? -certain patterns in europes internal development that favored innovation -europes failure to recreate the earlier unity of the Roman Empire may have acted as a stimulus to innovation List the additional factors Thea may have helped stimulate the industrial revolution in Europe. -newness of European states and their monarchs desperate need for revenue in the absence of an effective tax collecting bureaucracy pushed royals into an unusual alliance with their merchant classes What factors and processes endured a ready supply of industrial workers in Great Britain? - several accidents of geography and history contributed -europes scientific revolution took a distinctive form in Great Britain