General Education Drills Practice Test

Industrialization is the transformation from an agrarian society to factory-based manufacturing. It involves replacing hand production with machines, centralizing work in factories, and enabling large-scale, mass production. This shift often brings rapid urban growth, as people move to cities for factory jobs and new ways of organizing labor and the economy. The other ideas don’t capture this center of change: digital technology comes later in history, maritime trade expansion refers more to trade networks than the production system itself, and a decline of cities would contradict the common pattern of cities growing due to factory-based work.