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| To facilitate the smooth functioning of its rule, colonialism introduced a wide array of changes in every sphere, be it legal or cultural, or architectural. Some of these changes were deliberate while some took place in an unintended fashion. For example, we saw how western education was introduced to create Indians who would manage British colonialism. Instead, it led to the growth of nationalist and anti-colonial consciousness. Western colonialism was inextricably connected to the growth of western capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned. If capitalism became the dominant economic system, nation-states became the dominant political form of governing a territory. |
| Which of the following is TRUE in connection with the emergence of Western Capitalism? |
Exploration of the rest of the world by Europeans. Industrialization. Growth of science and technology. All of the above. |
| All of the above. |
| Capitalism in the west emerged out of a complex process of European exploration of the rest of the world, its plunder of wealth and resources, an unprecedented growth of science and technology, its harnessing to industries and agriculture. |
