Try to explain how important it was for advanced civilization that the industrial revolution occurred.

Civilization has to do with how individuals and peoples
(nations, cultures, races, etc.) treat each other.  Throughout time, civilization has
advanced in some places and regressed in others.  Civilization made possible the
industrial revolution.  When people feel secure in their lives, their liberty, and their
property, they will invest time and effort and capital in inventing and manufacturing
new machines and other devices to make life easier.  They will do this because they are
pretty sure they will make a profit from their input.  Where civilization is not so
advanced and people feel insecure about their lives, their liberty, and their property,
they are afraid to invest because they are afraid that their investment and profit will
either be destroyed by war, taken by robbers, or too highly taxed by bad
governors.

Faster communication and mass communication
devices and methods of recent times makes information more widespread, so that often war
or other conflict is avoided that in olden times would not have been avoided because
information moved too slow and reached too few people.  The industrial revolution has
facilitated high-speed and mass communication, so it has helped civilization, but mostly
civilization helped the industrial revolution.  The industrial revolution gave us labor
saving devices such as automatic washing machines, electric heat, automobiles, etc.  But
this is technology, not civilization.  Civilization results from the development of
institutions which enable mankind to solve conflicts with out resort to barbarism.  I
like Prof. Collinwood's use of the words civilization, savagery, and barbarism.  He said
savagery is a less advanced stage of civilization, and barbarism is the active
opposition to civilization.  Civilization is  secure life, liberty, and property so that
happiness results; happiness is adequate food, clothing, shelter, life, liberty,
property.