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 Imports of food, tea, coffee, cotton  Industrial raw materials from either agriculture or mineral commodities such as gold, diamonds, and copper 

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2  Imports of food, tea, coffee, cotton  Industrial raw materials from either agriculture or mineral commodities such as gold, diamonds, and copper  Imperialist nations had an insatiable appetite for these commodities and the old methods of productions an transportation could not meet their needs

3  Suez and Panama Canal rapidly decreased the amount of transportation time across the globe  Steamship size increased and new deeper harbors were needed to accommodate them  Railroads in the newly developed imperial territories were built linking mining and agricultural products, to the nearest harbors

4  Demand for agricultural goods and raw materials was ever increasing in Imperial Nations-British Tea  Botany and agricultural science was applied to all territories  Rubber was used to make waterproof materials and originally came from the Brazilian Rain Forrest ◦ Garments, bicycle tires, eventual automobile tires

5  New irrigation canals were built to bring water to dry areas turning them into well populated, crop producing farmlands  Railroads had huge appetites for land and resources  Gold mines in South Africa, Australia, and Canada  Tin in Nigeria, Malaya, and Bolivia  Huge mines opening up in expanses of earth


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