IS 220 Lecture 12: April 3, 2017
13 Apr 2017
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Coal exploration is very difficult and expensive: many successful states contained low-land coal deposits and had access to canals. Spain and portugal coal deposits are in elevated areas: had geography ill suited to canal use, very little canal development, their coal deposits were discovered far later. Early coal mines were concentrated around belgium, luxembourg, the. There was a delay between the discovery of coal and its application as an energy source. Prussia prussians observed that by conquering other german speaking places, they could cease vast amounts of coal. By 1870, prussia was large enough to launch conquest that unified all of present day germany, and seized the most valuable. Germany" soon had colonies in africa the british empire lost most of its colonies in the american revolution . 1812 looked like ti was going to loose all of british north. America it appeared in the early 19th century that the global colonial systems of.
