Of course, industrialization also fuels imperialism – as industrial nations want many natural resources for their factories and are able to gain cheap natural resources through conquest
Among the first results of the European Industrial Revolution in other parts of the world was the increased demand for commodities such as cotton and palm oil
Cotton was used to make textiles and as people in Europe began to take sanitation and hygiene seriously, demand for soap increased, resulting in the demand for vegetable oil suitable for soap manufacture and other technical uses