AP World History Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization (c. 1750–1900)
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With industrialization, a small number of states gained the ability to project power across the globe. Steamships, railroads, machine guns, and anti-malaria drugs allowed European powers, along with the United States and Japan, to seize territory in places they had previously traded with. Philosophers justified the land grab with ideas about civilization and racial hierarchy. By 1900, European powers controlled large parts of the globe, while colonized people resisted around the world as industrial economies reshaped societies.
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