In the early part of the industrial revolution, power was provided by people flowing water horses steam

steam

Important inventions of the Industrial Revolution included the steam engine, used to power steam locomotives, steamboats, steamships and machines in factories

tea which is where the whole thing about dumping it in the ocean came from

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire