There are many reasons as to why England was the first of the European nation-states to industrialize. First off there were conditions that already existed in England prior to the Industrial Revolution, that help to explain why England was first to industrialize. Feudalism was already breaking down around the early 1700s. The death of Feudalism resulted in many serfs that were left to find a new way of sustaining their economic livelihood. They d

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