Connecting Industrialization To Imperialism: 19th And 20th Century

Connecting Industrialization to Imperialism During the times of the 19th and 20th centuries, global development was at a steady to rapid increase. To provided background on the subject, industrialization and imperialism were a vital part in world history. Originated in Britain, the industrial revolution marked an new era as it (What todays people observe and obtain from texts, articles, and other sources is that both industrialism and imperialism play large roles in the advancements of the different societies in those time periods. What is to be gained from this is that. Due to various evidence and observation, industrialization and imperialism go hand and hand like cause and effect,

To start off, the connection of industrialization
Due to technological advances, it made former threats of expansion less dauting and more arbitrary. settlement and survival in equatorial zones less daunt. For example, the developments of the steamship and railways allowed for more coverage and discovery of eradicated the danger posed by the mouths of many African rivers. The steamship could simply be dissembled, brought inland and then reassembled for river travel, while wooden sailing ships previously could not. Similarly, industrial age advances in medicine brought quinine, a supplement that exponentially increased the survival rate of Western imperialists in malarial areas, acting as a preventative, though not a cure. Thus, Westerners could now worry much less about disease, whereas before quinine, severe fever and even death often came within weeks after arrival. Secondly, the goods created during the Industrial Revolution did no good unless there was a market for them. Imperialist nations hoped that colonists would move to these new lands in order to create new markets. Also, the indigenous people who lived in these colonies could perhaps buy the conquering nation's goods. Even if the new land was not conquered, then it could sign a trade treaty with a host country, thus creating lucrative overseas markets. China was never colonized, but European nations created "spheres of influence" in order to boost their trade in this populous