Economic reasons for colonization resources markets low wages Important industrial rev tech. for trade railroads Things that allowed transporting perishables steamships refrigeration Things that led to high food prices in Africa cash crops Thing needed for Agriculture, taken from Peru guano Countries that replaced US in cotton for Britain when US got free egypt india Major tree products that led to deforestation palm oil rubber Leader of De Beers Mining Company Cecil rhodes Who wanted railroad across Africa for British Cecil rhodes Who became minister of Cape Colony and sort of began apartheid Cecil rhodes `thing` led to spread of `thing2` in plants and hurt `thing3` thing: monoculture thing2: disease thing3: soil