Answer to Question #155489 in History for Aimee

Question

How did the industrial revolution help European countries exude power over the countries they colonize

Answer 1

In the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution contributed to a lot of transformation that led to advancement in transpiration, agricultural activities, weaponry developments, medical discoveries, and the need to secures raw materials and the market to sell the final products.

The industrial revolution significantly favored Europe to take over their colonies mainly for the advantages they got amounting to the development of superior weapons and a powerful warship used to conquer most lands in the Asian and African continent. History states that Europe only controlled thirty percent of the world's nations by 1800, but increased its colonies to about eighty-four percent in the 1900s. The European states used ships resulting from the industrial revolution to access their territories that were far located in other parts of the world. Revolution in the field of medicine further enabled European to withstand diseases that were prevalent in the countries that were within the tropics. Malaria was no longer a challenge upon the discoveries of penicillin. During the Industrial Revolution, mechanized agricultural activities sorted the food security for the European nations and their military bases to firmly push their opponents.

References

Parker, G. (1996). The military revolution: Military innovation and the rise of the West, 1500-1800. Cambridge University Press.

Britz, M. L., & Demain, A. L. (2012). Industrial revolution with microorganisms. Microbiology Australia, 33(3), 91-96.