In the middle of the nineteenth century, as the Industrial Revolution began, the great manufacturing powers, above all Britain and the United States, were aggressively looking for new sources of raw materials and new markets for their products.
<u>Explanation:</u>
A history of the world in 100 objects was a project that was taken up jointly by the BBC radio and the British museum. It had in it a 100 part radio series thus it had the name of 100 objects in it.
These were written and presented by the director of the British museum whose name was Neil MacGregor.
“So this great wave seemed, on the one hand, to be a symbolic barrier for the protection of Japan, but at the same time it had also suggested the potential for the Japanese to travel abroad, for ideas to move, for things to move back and forth.”
