SOCIAL SCIENCE TIME: MODERN AGE OR CONTEMPORARY AGE

Hello children!!!

Today we are going to learn some facts about the last period of History: MODERN AGE OR CONTEMPORARY AGE.

Contemporary Age began with the Industrial Revolution at the end of the 18th century and it lasts up to nowadays, beginning of the 21st century.

We already know that the Industrial Revolution, with the invention of the steam engine, caused many changes in society. People began to move from rural areas to big cities in order to work in factories. Cities began to grow but there were big differences in society. There were rich people whose children had the opportunity to go to school and poor people whose children didn't go to school but worked in factories.

This Revolution began in Great Britain but it extended all over the world. The products that we need began to be produced in factories using machines and not in small shops where products were handmade.

There was also a revolution in new technologies with the invention of the telegraph and a revolution in transportation with steam trains and boats.

Since those days there have been many changes. Everybody began to live in better conditions. All the children can now go to school and there are hospitals for everybody. 

These are some of the many inventions: the radio, the television, the cinema, the car, the aeroplane, even the rockets to go to outer space and, of course, the invention of the Internet. With all this inventions, entertainment (entretenimiento) also changed.

Here you have a video about the Industrial Revolution that changed everything in society.

In your Social Science book you can read some more information at pages 94 - 95 and do exercise 4 at page 95.

Next lesson we will finish our timeline by writing the most important information of this period.

I hope that you enjoyed learning History from the beginning of times until today.