Chapter 18

Chapter 18 taught me a lot of things I didn't previously know about European conquest and colonial economies. Europe started having struggles with gathering colonies because during this time nationalism began to arise. These colonies wanted to be a strong independent colonies and became hard to conquer. Chapter 18 also made me aware of how screwed the farmers got in the colonial times. Machinery became more efficient than Artisans could be, as well, blacksmiths were no longer needed.  Slowly but surely machines and assembly lines took over individual human work. The Industrial Revolution was good to a select amount of people, but were more importantly devastating to others.