Europe actually during the first industrial revolution coal and iron were really big in both England and Germany. they traded spices and other sorts of manufactured products from the ottoman empire, Venice (Italy didn't exist as today it was a series of kingdoms Venice being one of them) etc basically Middle East. later on England got themselves into a protective economy restricting manufactured imports in clothing and other thing like corn (read about the corn laws if youre intrested) which catapulted them into the most industrialized nation of the time.
Europe
expanded manufacturing
Raw materials and a large workforce for those of you on study island
An abundance of raw materials from the New World needed to be made into finished goods.
the colonies got slaves... Europe got raw materials, cocoa, corn, beans, squash, vanilla and other exotic goods... Africans got Guns
Some raw materials included lumber, livestock, produce, etc.
== == From America to Europe
Europe
Machinery, chemicals, food, raw materials, etc. are the main exports from Europe to the US.
Europe imperialized Africa in the Berlin Conference (Scramble for Africa) in order to obtain raw materials. With the raw materials that Africa offered such as rubber, Europe was able to manufacture goods such as tires.
· For access to raw materials
raw materials, gold and silver, and colonial markets
Europe became increasingly interested in exerting direct control over Africa's raw materials.
Raw materials
expanded manufacturing
for skilled wokers(;
UK has been called 'Taiwan of Europe' with Japanese trans-nationals. Transport costs are lowest if the raw materials are transported to the factory located at the market.