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