https://padlet.com/MonroeCountySchoolDistrict/ts9daxqo13t6uquj 6.8 Causation in the Imperial Age en-us 2022-02-02 12:52:54 UTC 2025-08-11 01:04:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/MonroeCountySchoolDistrict/ts9daxqo13t6uquj/wish/2025653753 The Industrial Revolution provided technological innovations that made it possible for Europeans and Americans to build the New Imperialism. Steamships, the Suez Canal, and submarine cables gave European forces greater mobility and better communications than Africans, Asians, or Latin Americans.]]> 2022-02-02 15:43:30 UTC https://padlet.com/MonroeCountySchoolDistrict/ts9daxqo13t6uquj/wish/2025653753 https://padlet.com/MonroeCountySchoolDistrict/ts9daxqo13t6uquj/wish/2025654540 The development of steam-powered ships greatly assisted European powers that sought to extend their empires in Africa and Asia. Europeans had enjoyed a virtual monopoly on sea travel since the first imperial expansion began in the 1500s, but this only extended to the coasts.]]> 2022-02-02 15:43:50 UTC https://padlet.com/MonroeCountySchoolDistrict/ts9daxqo13t6uquj/wish/2025654540 https://padlet.com/MonroeCountySchoolDistrict/ts9daxqo13t6uquj/wish/2025655693 the acquisition of steam power, industrialization, a global economy, medicine and military technology. These adaptations enabled nations to access new lands, acquire resources and protect trade routes]]> 2022-02-02 15:44:17 UTC https://padlet.com/MonroeCountySchoolDistrict/ts9daxqo13t6uquj/wish/2025655693 https://padlet.com/MonroeCountySchoolDistrict/ts9daxqo13t6uquj/wish/2025656361 The machine gun and other new weapons gave conquerors a big military advantage. Telegraphs, trains, and steamships reinvented communications and travel, making it much easier to rule bigger empires.]]> 2022-02-02 15:44:34 UTC https://padlet.com/MonroeCountySchoolDistrict/ts9daxqo13t6uquj/wish/2025656361 https://padlet.com/MonroeCountySchoolDistrict/ts9daxqo13t6uquj/wish/2025658230 European colonization of the Americas was made substantially easier through several technological innovations like compasses, caravels, and astrolabes. It affected economic development by making it possible for large scale trade networks between the Old World and the New World to develop.]]> 2022-02-02 15:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/MonroeCountySchoolDistrict/ts9daxqo13t6uquj/wish/2025658230