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1. One of the most important consequences of the European population explosion of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was the shift in Europe from a rural society to an
society.
2. In the 20
th
century decolonization had a significant impact on the
pattern of Europe.
3.
, a country with meager industrial output in the early 1900s, far surpassed all European countries by 1980.
4. A third sector of the economy,
, had emerged in Europe by the second half of the twentieth century and had become as important as industrial employment.
5. Banking, insurance, commerce, trade, journalism and communications are business examples in the
sector.
6. The
rate is used to measure the volume and distribution of labor in an economy.
7. Falling death rates (particularly infant mortality rates) and increased life expectancy were important factors in the flourishing
of the 20
th
century.
8. In most of Europe, birth rates increased during the baby boom of the 1950s, attributed to the end of
.
9. The most significant factor contributing to the vital revolution of the 20
th
century is the conquest of
.
10. In the late 1920s Scottish physician and bacteriologist
discovered penicillin.
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