TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT AS PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ECONOMIC REVOLUTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (original) (raw)

This article aims to demonstrate that technological advances were the main responsible for the occurrence of the 9 great economic revolutions that changed the world that occurred in the history of humanity described below in chronological order: 1) 1st Agricultural Revolution (6000 BC); 2) 2nd Agricultural Revolution (between the 12th and 15th centuries in the Lower Middle Ages); 3) The Commercial Revolution (between the 12th and 18th centuries); 4) 3rd Agricultural Revolution (in the 17th and 18th centuries in England); 5) 1st Industrial Revolution (1780-1830); 6) 2nd Industrial Revolution (1860-1900); 7) 4th Agricultural Revolution (between the 1960s and 1970s of the 20th century); 8) 3rd Industrial Revolution (1970s); and, 9) 4th Industrial Revolution or Informational or Post-Industrial Revolution at the present time.