A variety of factors contributed to the growth of industrial production and eventually resulted in the Industrial Revolution. Most of them had to do with the movement of good & people like, railroads & steamboats via direct access to rivers and canals. This allowed for a large geographical distribution of coal, iron, and timber. This led directly to a sharp rise in localized populations-- a process called urbanization. More people meant a heavy demand for agricultural productivity, which, encouraged more innovations and inventions. All of this enlarged the Europe's and America's share of global wealth and increasing a demand for foreign natural resources & accumulation of capital. However, the development of the factory system, which concentrated production in a single location shifted in how humans lived, worked and interacted with the environment.