https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh en-us 2023-03-02 14:34:13 UTC 2023-03-03 16:30:19 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f30d.png hl200014 https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501265094 Railroads lowered the cost of transporting raw materials and helped open up markets for manufactured goods in Europe. Europeans used their railroad projects as evidence that imperialism helped the people of Asia and Africa. ]]> 2023-03-02 15:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501265094 hl200014 https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501279641 Cecil Rhodes is the founder of De Beers Diamonds and invested in railroad projects that used technology that got resources from subject lands while paying the colonial laborers very little. His company is accounted for 90% of the world's diamond production and paved the way for the apartheid. ]]> 2023-03-02 15:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501279641 hl200014 https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501289046 Steamships required huge amounts of coal as fuel which allowed them to travel limited distances. When more efficient steam engines developed steamships became more reliable for longer distances ]]> 2023-03-02 15:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501289046 hl200014 https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501324208 Invented in 1832 and transformed communications by reducing the cost of information being shared along the railroad routes. It extended communication between British lands and made their presence of imperialism more known.]]> 2023-03-02 15:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501324208 hl200014 https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501330196 Cash crops were grown to be sold for their commercial value under imperialist powers. When cash crops started to the new face of agriculture and subsistence farming was starting to become no more along with their food crops, food prices rose harming those subject nations.]]> 2023-03-02 15:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501330196 hl200014 https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501331796 Guano as a great natural fertilizer made of bat and seabird excrement and rich in nitrates and phosphates was used globally around the world by farmers in the 19th century. It helped and increased development of agriculture for cash crops. ]]> 2023-03-02 15:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501331796 hl200014 https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501338107 Britain had their hands on a large amount of the production and exportation of cotton. The cotton production from Egypt and India allowed for the manufacturing of the textiles that Britain exported. ]]> 2023-03-02 16:01:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501338107 hl200014 https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501340647 The discovery of rubber allowed for the inventions of products like bicycles, houses, shoe soles and etc possible. Rubber even now plays a very important part in the automobile and transportation industry.]]> 2023-03-02 16:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501340647 hl200014 https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501342373 The demand for palm oil grew because of its importance for the machinery in European factories and became an important cash crop in West Africa. Palm oil was so valued that it replaced money in various African cultures and oil palm plantations were established by European colonists. ]]> 2023-03-02 16:04:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501342373 hl200014 https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501344293 Ivory in and traded from Africa was highly prized and valued because of its beauty. Ivory comes from the tusks of elephants which are highly respected in Africa and are used in things like piano keys, billiard balls and etc. ]]> 2023-03-02 16:05:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501344293 hl200014 https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501346758 Diamond production mostly in the hands of De Beers Mining Company caused the laboring of South African people. Britain wanted control of diamond production because of their imperialistic desires and wealth. ]]> 2023-03-02 16:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hl200014/apwhapwhapwhapwh/wish/2501346758