how did the industrial revolution help enlarge european trade?
The industrial revolution used raw materials and manufactured them into a final product. The manufactured product secures more money in the world market than the raw materials, and thus leads to more money for countries who were industrialized. The ability to manufacture goods gives the country the control to manage the supply and demand of the good and set the price in the world market far above the cost of the raw materials and labor included in its making. So, for example, when the United States was still a colony Britain exploited them for their raw materials, use these material to manufactured goods, and sold the manufactured goods back to the US colonials at prices they could not afford.
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