WORLD HISTORY

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

PRE INDUSTRIAL EUROPE

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I. Industrialism was spurred on by raw materials found in newly claimed African and Asian colonies. II. Industrial weapons gave Europeans an advantage over societies in Africa and Asia. III. Industrialism forced Europeans to search outside their borders for raw materials to meet demands. IV. Industrialization decreased production of goods, so Europeans needed to open more markets abroad.How were industrialism and imperialism related?
A
I, II, and III
B
II, III, and IV
C
I, II and IV
D
I, III, and IV
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Industrialisation created a huge demand for raw materials and led to the colonisation of Africa and Asia for these resources. Industrialisation and technological progress boosted European and American confidence, and national pride. They became convinced that they were superior.

Detailed explanation-2: -This New Imperialist Age gained its impetus from economic, military, political, humanitar-ian, and religious reasons, as well as from the development and acceptance of a new theory-Social Darwinism-and advances in technology.

Detailed explanation-3: -1. The Industrial Revolution provided technological innovations that made it possible for Europeans and Americans to build the New Imperialism. 2. Steamships, the Suez Canal, and submarine cables gave European forces greater mobility and better communications than Africans, Asians, or Latin Americans.

Detailed explanation-4: -The European imperialist push into Africa was motivated by three main factors, economic, political, and social. It developed in the nineteenth century following the collapse of the profitability of the slave trade, its abolition and suppression, as well as the expansion of the European capitalist Industrial Revolution.

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