Because as industrialization grew and spread throughout Europe, competition for raw materials increased. Consequently, some European industrialists encouraged their governments to colonize African countries as a method of guaranteeing sources of raw materials.
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Industrialization in the UK, and this answer will narrow the UK down to Great Britain and England was indeed different than the industrialization in China. Even without breaking down China's industrialization to the time before and after the Communist Party took over China in 1950, the two countries' industrialization process was vastly different. Here is why:
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England's industrial revolution had its roots in the later part of the 17th Century while China's began much later.
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