Military Conquest Vs Industrial Revolution

The Military conquest is “the act of getting control of a country by fighting” (Longman Dictionary). During the Industrial Revolution a British company named the East India company or the English East India Company was a anonimus society that was created to pursue commerce with the “East Indies” but ended up negotiating principally with the Indian subcontinent and the Qing China. The Company rise up to represent half of the world's trade, specifically on the basic products like tea, salt, cotton, silk and many other things. The company also governed the beginnings of the British Empire in India. All of this was considered a military conquest because even though every part of the commerce and the production was made in India but the Britains

On september 1st of 1939 a German battleship opened fire in Poland in what later turn out to be the first military commitment of the second world war. “Simultaneously, 62 German divisions supported by 1,300 aircraft commenced the invasion of Poland.” (Lightbody). Everything that influenced on the decision of Hitler to invade poland was a gamble but the thing is that the German army wasn't strong enough and the economy of Germany was just recovering from the first world war. The invasion alarmed Hitler's general and they were preparing and preventing anything that can affect them. Hitler thought that the invasion in Poland would result in a short and victorious war for two main reasons. First, he was convinced that his army would destroy the armed forces of Poland. Secondly, he judge the British and French ministers, Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier of being weak leaders and thought that they prefer a treaty of peace instead of

A very clear example of an economic conquest during the Industrial Revolution is the British Mercantilist trade that was one of the main causes of the American Revolution. The thirteen colonies were the ones who exported their sugar, tea and many other products to England but the British were the ones who stayed with most of the the gains, even though they only were the ones who sold them and the Americans who were the ones who produced them and export them stayed with very few of the earnings. Also Americans needed to follow trade regulations that were very specific and in some cases Americans were not benefited. Some regulations were that British required all goods traded within the empire to be carried in British or American ships of the country of manufacture, also specified that certain colonial products such as tobacco, sugar, and indigo could be shipped only to England or to other English colonies and all this and many others things led to the American