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One of the most dramatic effects that industrialization had on militarism in Europe was the increase in extremely destructive and deadly weapons produced.
Explanation:
Wars were forever changed when weapons became even more deadly. For example, the Maxim machine gun, invented in the late 19th century, proved to be extremely effective and fatal when used in the trench warfare of WWI.
Furthermore, another great example of industrialization's impact can be witnessed in the Scramble for Africa, in which great European powers raced to conquer African territories. Here, Europeans demonstrated their industrial superiority over the un-industrailizated African nations by defeating them easily and with great fatalities on the African side. You can look up specific battles for exact numbers, but the difference between European lives lost and African lives lost is astronomical.
