Question

Evaluate the extent to which demand for industrial resources, including rubber, shaped European imperialism in the late nineteenth century. Historical Background: Natural rubber is made from the sap of several species of trees and vines that grow in the wild in tropical rain forests. In the late nineteenth century, as demand for rubber rapidly increased, the Amazon Basin in South America and the Congo Basin in central Africa emerged as the main rubber-producing regions in the world.

Answer 1

As the industrialization expanded the European need for raw materials required to manufacture products, the era of the "New Imperialism" begun by shifting the focus from trade and indirect command to complete colonial control of territories in Africa, the Americas, Eastern Europe, and Asia, decreed as political extensions of their colonizing countries.

Step-by-step explanation:

For example, rubber became a key material during the Industrial Revolution in Europe, first exclusively found in the Amazon Basin, and later in the Congo, which was colonized by King Leopold II.