Every other country was forcibly disarmed or broke.
Along with the diminishing supply of metals used for currency, Chines scholars developed the new economic idea that held paper money as a means of payment and exchange, not as a value in itself. The issuing of paper currency in Song China was as much of a process as the invention of paper currency itself.
The answer is human resources
Thus, industrialization<span> gave European countries more military power. ... Finally,</span>industrialization<span> made it so that the European countries needed to sell more goods. They had so much ability to produce that they needed captive markets in which to sell the excess.
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Because moving traded goods great distances by floating them
on the water is just about the easiest and cheapest way to
deliver them from one place to another place.