Note: The following tables and graphs were created by the author based on data from History Alive 9.
The Population Explosion
Coal and Iron
Health and Hygiene
Trade, Empire and Shipping
British ColonyCanada
Jamaica British Guiana Gambia Bermuda India Penang and Malacca Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) New South Wales |
Raw materials providedFurs, timber, fish
Sugar, coffee Sugar, tobacco Cocoa Salt, whale oil, baleen Cotton, tea, timber, sugar Spices, timber Tea, timber, cocoa Whale oil, baleen, wool |