Question

Choose all that apply. Which of the following contributed to European dominance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?

a) European gov. found ways to pay expensive wars
b) There was a shift of military power away from European nations
c) There was organization of labor on an international basis
d) European nations could not pay back their foreign loans

Answer 1

Answers: A & C.

The factors which contributed to European dominance in the 19th and 20th centuries are as follows:

1. European government found means to sponsor expensive wars, majorly through the creation of national Central Banks, which gave loans to governments in order to fund widespread military expansion. The governments were able to pay back the loans with the profits they made from colonization and imperialism.

2. There was organization of labor on an international basis, such that labor came in great part from other countries, where the labor was much less expensive.