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Alan Macfarlane, a professor at Cambridge, proposes that changes in drinking habits, specifically the increased consumption of tea and beer in Britain, were key contributing factors that enabled the population growth needed to fuel the Industrial Revolution. Tea and beer both contain compounds that purify water when boiled, allowing dense urban populations to develop without the rampant waterborne diseases that plagued other societies. While other countries met some prerequisites for industrialization, Brit
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- Thắm Nguyễn
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- EN