Industry Spreads, and Shares Shift
From northwestern Europe outward
- As new methods of industrial production became more common in parts of northwestern Europe, they spread to other parts of Europe and the United States, Russia and Japan.
- The CED names the receiving places precisely, and two of them are outside the West.
- So the story of the spread of industry is not a story about one civilisation.
Select all the places the CED says industrial methods spread to.
Two of the named receivers are outside the West.
Shares of global manufacturing moved
- The rapid development of steam-powered industrial production in European countries and the U.S. contributed to the increase in these regions' share of global manufacturing during the first Industrial Revolution.
- While Middle Eastern and Asian countries continued to produce manufactured goods, these regions' share in global manufacturing declined.
- Continued to produce is the CED's careful qualifier: this is a change in share, not the disappearance of an industry.
The primary mechanism behind falling Asian and Middle Eastern shares was...
The CED's qualifier is continued to produce.
Three industries that lost share
- The CED names them: shipbuilding in India and Southeast Asia, iron works in India, and textile production in India and Egypt.
- All three were substantial industries with long histories, not workshops.
- So the decline is a relative one caused by others growing faster — and in some cases by policy, which 6.5 will call economic imperialism.
Where industry spread, what lost share, or the mechanism?
Sort each item in the spread of industry.
Select all the industries the CED names as losing share.
Chinese porcelain belongs to units 1 and 2.
A falling share is not the same as falling output. The CED says Middle Eastern and Asian countries continued to produce manufactured goods while their share declined — so the primary mechanism is others growing much faster, and an answer describing Asian industry vanishing has read a relative change as an absolute one.
Match each aspect to what changed.
The objective names modes and locations.
Modes and locations, both
- The objective is how different modes and locations of production have developed and changed over time.
- Mode: from household and workshop production to the factory and steam power.
- Location: from where skilled artisans lived to where coal, water and capital happened to be.
Indian textile production stopped during the first Industrial Revolution.
The CED says these countries continued to produce while their share declined.
Writing about a shifting share
- A share can fall for two different reasons: you produce less, or others produce far more.
- The CED says Asian and Middle Eastern producers continued to produce, so the second is the primary mechanism.
- Saying which mechanism you mean is the difference between a precise answer and a vague one.
Indian textile production continues; British mechanised output rises many times faster. India's share of the world total falls while its looms are still working. Both facts are true at once, and only naming the mechanism — relative growth elsewhere — keeps them from contradicting each other.
Industrial methods spread from northwestern Europe to other parts of Europe, the United States, Russia and Japan. Steam-powered production raised European and U.S. shares of global manufacturing, while Middle Eastern and Asian countries continued to produce but their share declined — shipbuilding, iron works and textiles in India, Southeast Asia and Egypt.