Answer:
Plants ,animals , and disease between the new and old worlds
Explanation:
The main way in which the development of the steam locomotive was so important to industrialization is that it allowed for steam to be used in factories that could use the steam power to run engines that could assemble products and create textiles with unprecedented speed.
John Jacobs Rascob (I think?) built the Empire state building purely because he was competing with other entrepreneurs to construct the tallest in the world!
What an extraordinary fact, don't you think?
Hope this helps!
- Z