how did the industrialization of Europe change the relationship between Europe and the rest of the world?

Question

i don't know if Europe was more advanced or the same as other countries after its industrialization either

Answer 1

Before the industrial revolution (ir) China was a larger producer of steel and all of Europe. Afterwards, europe exceeded everywhere else and was soon on their way to world domination. Think about Great Britian circa 1900 and how much land it controlled.

Answer 2

Before the Industrial Revolution began, European imperialism's second phase hadn't begun yet, the first phase that being the Age of Exploration (1500-1700). At the time China was sovereign, and pretty much most of India, as well as Japan. By the mid XIX century European economies were thoroughly industrialized and needed more coal and steel to keep up production, as well as other raw materials to sustain an industrial society. Hence, when they naturally expanded, this technological superiority was evident in contrast to the rest of the world who didn't, except Japan who decided to industrialize and become an Asian nation on European nation-state model. China succumbed to a division of spheres of influence and at gun point forced to give concessions to Europeans (Manchus would be overthrown by Western style republicans who were then overthrown by anti/Western marxists in 1949). India was absorbed into the British Empire quite easily, and in Africa, expansion was slower but resistance wasn't much, and if there was, sheer numbers compensated (ex, Zulus vs British). The Middle East had Israeli Western style imperialism installed in Palestine, while the rest were carved out from the old Ottoman and Saffavid Empires, themselves inferior compared to Western powers. This inferiority carried itself through after independence, and this imperial experience has led to the Zionist Wars since 1947, Nasser and Arab style nationalism, and fundamentalism in the form of terrorism. This disparity exists to this day, but at a different level, and manner. Some things will never change.

Answer 3

The growing need for primary resources like cotton, rubber, vegetable oils, copper, oil and rare metals, the need for world-wide coal and oil bunkering facilities for steam-driven warships, and markets to sell their output, changed the coloniation strategies for all Western nations. So, less colonies for slaves and plantatations, and more quasi-colonies run through proxy or puppet governments that allowed unrestricted exports of raw materials, unrestricted import of manufactured Western goods and shipping rights.

A good example is India, where the British destroyed the local cotton industry in favor of their own cotton mills, and flooded India with cheap manufactured cotton. That's why you see so many images of Mahatma Gandhi with a spinning wheel.

That's why King Leopold II of Belgium gained a fortune by dragging rubber out of the Congo Free State, but went almost bust when other colonial nations started rubber plantations in their colonies.

Answer 4

Raw goods. The industrial revolution required raw good such as cotton to feed the mills to produice finished goods. That's one of the main reasons England took over India.

Answer 5

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