Modern Revolution: Positive Or Negative Force?

Investigation 9: To what extent has the Modern Revolution been a positive or negative force?
What would life be like had the modern revolution never happened? Would the our society and the world we live in be better or worse? These are two questions that you have to think about and dig into history to answer them. The Modern Revolution started with the steam engine and sparked an era in history that completely changed the way we live. The Modern Revolution has been a positive force because of the spread of democracies, the vaccines created to fight diseases and the literacy and education rates skyrocketing.
First, the Modern Revolution has had a positive impact because of the spread of democracies. From 1816-1991 there has been 353 wars and

From 1850 to present day literacy rates in the world have gone from 10% to 80%. Due to population increasing, the amount of illiterate people have increased but the percent of illiterate people has decreased immensely. The teachings have not all been the same throughout all societies, because of this men are more literate than women, for every 100 literate men there are 88 women. In 2002 100 million children weren’t enrolled in school and 55% were female (Text 3). Even though teachings haven’t been the same throughout the entire world the literacy rates are still increasing. People might argue that women not being taught the same is negative, but different parts of society have different views on where people stand and many countries have to overcome this. While men are getting taught better than women, it isn’t fair but it is positive that we are advancing with our knowledge and collective learning. In some societies the knowledge people recieve might be based on what they look like or what gender they are and this is not right but as time goes on this will change. All-in-all literacy rates going up are a definite