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My thought: Industrial Revolution brought together economies of the world because travel and everything was easier. So isolated economies became part of the world economy.
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For one thing, in the example of Japan, the industrial revolution gave industrialized nations such advantage in war, commerce, and science that isolated economies such as Japan recognised that they needed what the West had in order to maintain an edge on neighboring nations (i.e. China)
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BIG GUNS ON BIG BOATS.
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Think power and raw materials. These are essential in technical advancement. Japan is such a small place, for it to industrialize it needed coal and oil. To build it needed iron and steel. It had to trade for these in the big world or it would be building with bamboo forever and lighting with whale blubber. These were of course among their exports.
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