The Europeans (and Japan) are Industrialized (or Industrializing). They need those Raw Materials to feed their industrial machines back home. Check out the map. Notice this is NOT the days of God, Gold and Glory. This is the age of Materials and Markets. Start to associate these raw materials with their ultimate uses whether it’s metals to machinery or guano to fertilizer or meat to eat. 6.2 was all about the expansion of these Empires… but, if you compare the map below to the 6.2 map, you can see what raw materials each nation was looking for/finding when building their empires.

1. RAW MATERIALS
2. GUANO
3. VULCANIZATION
4. DEBEERS
5. CASH CROPS

CLIP #1: HEIMLER HANDLES GLOBAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

CLIP #2: Why EGYPTIAN COTTON is the best… (from some company that grows cotton in Egypt)

CLIP #3: GUANO FARMING TODAY in PERU

CLIP #4: The HISTORY of GUANO from John Green’s Brother

CLIP #5: GOODYEAR ACCIDENTALLY INVENTS VULCANIZATION OF RUBBER

CLIP #6 : The PROBLEM with PALM OIL PRODUCTION :(

CLIP #7: The problems of MONOCULTURE (This guy gardens)

1. US PATENT #1090 (1838), Charles Goodyear
2. THE GUANO ISLANDS ACT (1856), US Congress
3. CONFESSION OF FAITH (1877), Cecil Rhodes
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1. MUHAMMAD ALI DISPLAYING HIS MODERN ARMY AND NAVY (c. 1830)

2. KIMBERLEY HOLE, DeBEERS, LARGEST MAN MADE HOLE (Open pit Diamond Mine), South Africa

3. RHODES FALLS (Part of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign to remove statues to the architect of Apartheid in South Africa), 2015

4. GUANAYS AT NESTING GROUND SOUTH CHINCHA ISLAND (1907)

5. GREENPEACE PROTESTS AGAINST UNILEVER FOR THEIR PALM OIL FARMING PRACTICES (c. 21st Century)

1. The Europeans (and Japan) are taking over.
2. They aren’t doing this for fun. They want your stuff.
3. The stuff you have are cash crops and minerals they can exploit for their own profit.
4. They need this stuff to feed their Industrial economies back home.
5. Little regard was put towards the environmental impact these practices would have in the future.