A. Changes in technology led to increased production in both regions.
Explanation:
In the course of the technical and industrial revolution that occurred in many nations during the end of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth century there was a great application to the industry of new machines and steam as a driving element and new techniques were used in all the spheres of human activity, the first weaving machines were also manufactured like the mechanical loom, invention of the English clergy Edmund Cartwright.
