Technology Creates History and Geopolitics What came first Chicken or Egg…. A difficult question to answer, what is easy to answer according to me, It is Technology which came first and then Technology dictated the course of Geopolitics and History. Let me explain with examples from Modern History. Industrial age: Industrial age arrived in early nineteenth century. Use of Coal and subsequently Crude Oil lead us to an era of Industrialization especially in Europe. To have control over the raw material used by the industry and also control the markets where the finished goods of the industries were sold, the Industrial countries of Europe Colonized the world. The Geopolitics of Colonization and the subsequent History was the creation of Industrialization. Jet age : With the rise of the Berlin wall in 1944, the world was divided into two. The bipolar world was dominated by the Capitalist and the communist, by NATO and WARSAW, by USA and USSR. This dominance was ...