What is the difference between people's life in the period of agricultural civilization and industrial civilization?

1. The degree of scientific and technological development is different.

In the period of industrial civilization, communication equipment such as telephone and telegraph appeared in communication. There was a growing connection between different parts of the world. In terms of class, two opposing classes, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, arose.

2. The productive forces were different.

Agricultural civilization, people were mainly self-sufficient small farmers, and the object of production was mainly land. Living a sedentary life, the level of productivity compared with nomadic civilization has greatly improved. With the development of time, the land gradually accumulated in the hands of a few people, and two opposing classes emerged: the landlord class and the peasant class.

In the industrial civilization, the productivity of the society was greatly improved, and after the first, second and even the third industrial revolutions, the living standard of the people was greatly improved. Cities began to appear and develop rapidly, and transportation was also greatly improved, with the emergence of advanced means of transportation such as cars, trains, and ships.

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Modern agricultural civilization was realized. p>The realization of modern agricultural civilization not only satisfies human's demand for energy and resources, but also promotes the transformation of the economic growth mode, implying the subversion and transformation of the traditional economic and social organization. Modern agricultural civilization brings contemporary mankind not only a new energy source, but also a new revolution in the transformation of economic form after the Industrial Revolution.

Industrial civilization is a modern social civilization with industrialization as the important symbol and mechanized mass production as the dominant state. Its main features are industrialization, urbanization, legalization and democratization, increased mobility of social strata, popularization of education, accelerated news transmission, substantial increase in the proportion of non-agricultural population, and sustained economic growth. These characteristics can also be regarded as the important factors driving the transition from traditional agricultural civilization to industrial civilization.

Human society has gone through primitive civilization, agricultural civilization, industrial civilization and finally reached the knowledge civilization in which the western countries are now living is a process, and none of the intermediate stages can be omitted. This is a process of progressive development of the level of productivity, is a universal law of human society.

In comparison, the early years of industrial civilization caused great damage to the environment. This has led some leftists to express their strong dissatisfaction with it. It is normal, but irrational, for such sentiments to arise.

Because those people only saw the environmental pollution, waste of resources, and widening of the gap between the rich and the poor in the early days of industrial civilization, but they did not see the rapid growth of human food production after the Industrial Revolution, the flourishing social welfare system in the late days of the Industrial Revolution, or the rapid decline in the mortality rate of newborns after the Industrial Revolution.

Therefore, the Western countries once walked the road of industrialization today we must also go, but we have to learn the lessons of the advanced countries in the West, so that we in the industrialization of the road as far as possible less detours, with a view to entering the knowledge civilization earlier.

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