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What geographic factor contributed to England's industrialization?

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Answer: England and Great Britain as a whole had several factors which allowed for the development of industry before any other European country. Three of the most important were as follows:

The Agricultural Revolution had been more thorough in Great Britain than anywhere else in Europe. Increased agricultural productivity led to rapid population increases. Enclosure, a key part of the Agricultural Revolution, had driven many small farmers and peasants from the countryside to the cities.

Unlike many nations in Europe, Great Britain had a modern financial system centralized around a national bank chartered by the Crown. Although this largely was a consequence of the need to finance England's eighteenth century wars with France, it allowed potential industrialists to borrow the money they needed for capital.

Great Britain had an abundance of the natural resources needed in the early Industrial Revolution. It had plenty of rivers and fast-moving streams for water power, and plenty of coal for the steam engines which became crucial to industrial growth.

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D: Geography and Natural Resources England’s rivers offered a dual advantage. Fast-flowing rivers were a source of water power to fuel machinery, and throughout the nation rivers provided inland transportation routes for industrial goods.

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