What factors contributed to the coming of World War I? Before war world 1 al most all the major countries of the world had alliances with each other. If one country got into a war with another country, then their allies would also be fighting. So when the successor to Hungary and Austria was killed, they blamed Siberia for the attack, and many countries took sides. From there World War 1 Began.
What does Professor McCloskey conclude regarding whether the average person in the West benefited from imperialism? Essentially what McCloskey was saying was that do to imperialism in the east, the west financially benefitted. While imperialism helped the countries in the east, the west did not benefit. In fact it was the industrial revolution that directly benefitted them.
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