Which of the following actions is most similar to the one taken by great britain early in the industrial revolution?
a. a governor encourages companies in his state to avoid doing business with residents of other states.
b. a company prevents its employees from discussing new products with anyone outside the company.
c. a teacher offers her teaching materials and lesson plans to other teachers for free online.
d. a city mayor encourages people in crowded neighborhoods to move to less populated rural areas.

The action that is most similar to the one taken by Great Britain early the industrial revolution is: "A company prevents its employees from discussing new products with anybody outside of the company." Option B is correct.

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the US. This transition involved going from production made by hand to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, further use of steam power and water power, the development of machine tools and the rise of the mechanized factory system.

polisit can also mean a body of citizens. in modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient greek city-states, like classical athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". the body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient greece.