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Taylor Boesiger, Ashley Earnest
=France Sim Group Page=

**Global effects of industrialization**

 * 1) ===The continuing spread of industrialization beyond Europe and North America (TB)===
 * 2) Industrialization in Russia promoted by tsarist government
 * 3) Between 1860 and 1900, built thirty-five thousand miles of railroads
 * 4) Finance minister, Sergei Witte, promoted industry
 * 5) Witte oversaw the construction of the trans-Siberian railroad
 * 6) Reformed commercial law to protect industries and steamship companies
 * 7) Promoted nautical and engineering schools
 * 8) Encouraged foreign investors
 * 9) By 1900 Russia produced half the world's oil, also significant iron and armaments
 * 10) Industrialization in Japan also promoted by government
 * 11) Hired thousands of foreign experts to establish modern industries
 * 12) Created new industries; opened technical institutes and universities
 * 13) Government-owned businesses then sold to private entrepreneurs (//zaibatsu//)
 * 14) Japan was the most industrialized land in Asia by 1900
 * 15) ===The international division of labor (AE)===
 * 16) Industrialization increased demand for raw materials
 * 17) Nonindustrialized societies became suppliers of raw materials
 * 18) Cotton from India, Egypt; rubber from Brazil, Malaya, and Congo River basin
 * 19) Economic development better in lands colonized by Europe
 * 20) High wages encouraged labor-saving technologies
 * 21) Canada, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand: later industrialized
 * 22) Economic dependency more common in other countries
 * 23) Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia, and southeast Asia
 * 24) Foreign investors owned and controlled plantations and production
 * 25) Free-trade policy favored foreign products over domestic
 * 26) World divided into producers and consumers