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    Explore how Europe expanded from 35% to 84% global control through industrial revolution, nationalism, and imperialism. Perfect for Swedish gymnasium history exam prep covering key actors, structures, and transformations.

    Industrial Revolution to Imperial Domination 1789-1888

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    Industrialization created both the need for imperial expansion and the means to achieve it, shifting the global focus from luxury trade to the systematic control of raw materials and markets required to sustain a modern economy.

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    Jag har historia prov jag går i årskurs 2 i gymnasiet och har prov inom industriella revolutionen slaveriets historia 1789-1888 aktörer och struktur wienkongress imperialism energihistoria och the west and the rest nationalism o h sapiens kapitel 15 (imperialism)

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