Industrialization began in Britain because Britain had the resources needed for industrialization and was a politically stable society. The industrialization of Britain began with the textile industry and spread from there. During the industrialization of Britain, Britain became extremely wealth and many innovations were made to increase productivity. In fact, the Industrial Revolution is the reason why we have steam power and the cotton gin. There were factories and mines everywhere. This event was significant because it was the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and if the Industrial Revolution had never happened we would not be the world we are today. This event relates to imperialism (Opium Wars) because due to the industrialization, nations started to run out of resources. This led them to traveling to faraway places in order to colonize places that had resources. One of these places was China and at first they paid China in gold/silver but eventually started paying them Opium. However China didn’t want to accept the opium which led to the Opium
Industrialization began in Britain because Britain had the resources needed for industrialization and was a politically stable society. The industrialization of Britain began with the textile industry and spread from there. During the industrialization of Britain, Britain became extremely wealth and many innovations were made to increase productivity. In fact, the Industrial Revolution is the reason why we have steam power and the cotton gin. There were factories and mines everywhere. This event was significant because it was the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and if the Industrial Revolution had never happened we would not be the world we are today. This event relates to imperialism (Opium Wars) because due to the industrialization, nations started to run out of resources. This led them to traveling to faraway places in order to colonize places that had resources. One of these places was China and at first they paid China in gold/silver but eventually started paying them Opium. However China didn’t want to accept the opium which led to the Opium