Farmers and artisans from The Ottoman Empire found it increasingly hard to compete with the highly industrialized countries.
When the Industrial Revolution took place, some countries became industrialized faster than other countries. Great Britain is considered the place where the Industrial Revolution truly began, so Great Britain was one of the first industrialized countries. Industrial technology spread across the world soon and quickly and was embraced in several countries, especially in Western Europe (including Germany) and soon after in North America (including the USA). Neverthelessr, numerous regions such as the Ottoman Empire centered on modern-day Turkey and they did not adopt industrial technology as quickly as the other countries, hence their farmers and artisans found it difficult to compete with the highly industrialized countries.
The printing press affected the European Renaissance because texts about secularism and individualism became more widely available, <span>since this led people to question the "status quo" of religious dominance.</span>
