Imports of food, tea, coffee, cotton Industrial raw materials from either agriculture or mineral commodities such as gold, diamonds, and copper

Imperialist nations had an insatiable appetite for these commodities and the old methods of productions an transportation could not meet their needs

Suez and Panama Canal rapidly decreased the amount of transportation time across the globe

Steamship size increased and new deeper harbors were needed to accommodate them

Railroads in the newly developed imperial territories were built linking mining and agricultural products, to the nearest harbors

Demand for agricultural goods and raw materials was ever increasing in Imperial Nations-British Tea

Botany and agricultural science was applied to all territories

Rubber was used to make waterproof materials and originally came from the Brazilian Rain Forrest◦ Garments, bicycle tires, eventual automobile tires

New irrigation canals were built to bring water to dry areas turning them into well populated, crop producing farmlands

Railroads had huge appetites for land and resources

Gold mines in South Africa, Australia, and Canada

Tin in Nigeria, Malaya, and Bolivia Huge mines opening up in expanses of

earth