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===Industrialization and social decline===

The Industrial Revolution was a period of tremendous economic, social, and even political changes. For Ardmore, this meant further prosperity on top of the wealth already amassed from Crona. Much of the industrialization of Ardmore occurred in the southern urban areas of the island of Great Ardmore and on the peripheral islands of the Ardmori Isles, which was generally the poorer part of the kingdom and thus was full of plenty of laborers who could be cheaply employed all the while the profits were sent to the more affluent northern areas and most especially in the nation's capital of Rosmore which was where the kingdom's aristocracy and nouveau riche mostly resided in. For much of the lower classes of Ardmore, material conditions have worsened thanks to the Industrial Revolution as not only were villages demolished to make way for new industrial buildings, these new buildings were highly {{wp|pollution|polluting}}, which meant that smoke and smog often got into people's lungs and introducing them to new health problems, as well as highly dangerous as safety conditions were practically nonexistent, meaning that multiple workers would run the risk of losing a limb or even their lives.