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Abraham Darby, an ironworker, discovered how to smelt iron in Coalbrookdale, England.
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Took place in Ironbrigde, England; It showed the resources, technology, and skills of the time.
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The innovations from the Industrial Revolution spread to mainland Europe. These countries had to be close to their source of coal and closeness to a port.
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Japan was one of the leading industrial countries in the world at the time and they colonized Korea, Taiwan and China to expand the automobile and chemical industries.
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It gave Britain the power to have a near-monopoly of the production of several products and could have more access to their colonies.
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Manchester, which was the center of textiles, was connected to the port of Liverpool by a railroad.
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The U.S. was a rival to England since they had raw materials from overseas and some of the world’s largest coal reserves, meaning that they would never run out of it.
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The Soviet Union industrialized the Moscow Region because of the amount of resources there were to attract industries.
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It was a period of mass production and mass consumption. Henry Ford's mass-production assembly line that made inexpensive production of consumer goods in a single place possible.