The De Beers Diamond Co. was built on the backs of black Africans which were exploited
from the 1870 - present.
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The Europeans (and Japan) are Industrialized (or Industrializing). They need those Raw Materials to feed their industrial machines back home. Check out the map. Notice this is NOT the days of God, Gold and Glory. This is the age of Materials and Markets. Start to associate these raw materials with their ultimate uses whether it’s metals to machinery or guano to fertilizer or meat to eat. 6.2 was all about the expansion of these Empires… but, if you compare the map below to the 6.2 map, you can see what raw materials each nation was looking for/finding when building their empires.
Objective:
E. Explain how various environmental factors contributed to the development of the global economy from 1750 to 1900.
Theme:
E. ENV (Humans and the Environments)
Skills:
E. ENV
Explain how various environmental factors contributed to the development of the global economy from 1750 to 1900.
Historical Development
The need for raw materials for factories and increased food supplies for the growing population in urban centers led to the growth of export economies around the world that specialized in commercial extraction of natural resources and the production of food and industrial crops. The profits from these raw materials were used to purchase finished goods. Some examples of these resource export economies included cotton production in Egypt, rubber extraction in the Amazon and the Congo basin, the palm oil trade in West Africa, the guano industries in Peru and Chile, meat from Argentina and Uruguay, and diamonds from Africa.
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