Question

Which of these was important at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution but is no longer important to highly developed countries?

Access to large markets

Technological monopolies

Transportation infrastructure

Proximity to sources of energy

A well-trained workforce

Answer 1

The correct answer is Transportation infrastructure

At the beginning of the industrial revolution, the new forms of transportation were very important, as they represented a change in the way both of moving and transporting food, materials and various other elements that were important at the time. Although transport is not so important today, even if it is important, in the industrial revolution the mode of transport structures represented in a significant way the change of developed societies.