What were 6 reasons why Britain was the 1st country to industrialize?

Answer 1

Boomer will give it a try:

1) The government favored competition and allowed the market to provide incentives.

2) It had huge coal supplies that were begging to be utilized as a cheap source of energy.

3) It had the world's best, and biggest, navy, to protect commercial shipping lanes, which allowed:

4) the free, economical transport of raw materials that were spindled, folded and mutilated and then resold to growing colonies and other nations.

5) a long history of academic and scientific achievement which allowed such technology.

and

6) really good ale to keep every hard worker happy and productive. ---meaning, demographics.


(Cheated on 6. You might say it was the English Channel and the Navy that kept England from invasion, so they could go about their industrialization. But I still think it was the brew... God bless the USA and God bless English IPA!)

Answer 2

Strong navy which gave it access to trade worldwide.
The invention of the steam engine by James Watt which meant that production could be greatly increased over the old methods.
Large resources of coal and iron
Good internal communications by canal and later railway.
An increasing empire which provided a captive market for British goods
Population growth which provided a large and cheap workforce.