GEOG 1001 Study Guide - Cash Crop, Mercantilism, History Of Europe
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United kingdom all the way to poland: there are very significant mountain ranges throughout europe. Industrial revolution: gb (great britain) industrialized first, these are six reasons why this happened, they had a large agricultural surplus, the military power of europe; coercion, economic control, this is the kind of control that ensured dependency. If the mother country was already making something, you were forbidden. Someone couldn"t make shoes because the mother country was already to make that. making shoes: to legitimize colonial rule. Certain people would be given grant of land. People would be given jobs, lifetime careers, in the colonial administration. Even education was a part of this, they set up european sty schooling in the colonies to create western style colonists for the future: they would introduce what they considered to be civilization. Europeans thought of themselves as very highly civilized, and wanted to share that. They brought in european styles of politics and society.
