spread of industrialization

Question 1

how were non industrialized countries impacted by the IR?

Answer 1

• industrialized countries used their new stuff to get raw materials from pre industrialized countries
• they took over their country and damaged local economies (because the IRcountrie’s stuff was cheaper)

Question 2

Describe Russia’s industrialization

Answer 2

the traits government encouraged railroads construction to link their huge country
-stimulates coal/iron/steel industries

Count Sergei Witte (finance minister) -pushed the trans-Siberian railroad

• -reform commercial law
• -protect new industries
• -support steam ship companies
• -promote nautical and engineering schools
• –encouraged foreign investors
• –save banks
• –weapons, coal, iron

Question 3

describe Japan’s industrialization

Answer 3

-govnt hired foreign experts to instruct workers and managers
-modernized iron foundries and dockyards
-new businesses started
-open schools of science and technical fields
-govn’t made railroads, open mines, organize banking, establlish mechanized industries
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-when businesses could do their own, they were sold to private entrepreneurs who built zaibatsu (wealth industrial empire cliques)