What two things drive technological innovation?

consumer demand
cheap labor
daydreaming
failure
competition

two things that drive technological innovation were:

consumer demand

competition

Consumer demand create an opportunity in the market for different variety of products. Competition force people to constantly find new ways to win the competition. This lead to the effort to create technological innovation so they can obtain some sort advantages in the competition.

by 1880, germany had more rail lines than great britain and russia.

beowulf is considered an epic poem because it describes the actions of a great warrior.

beowulf is taken into account an epos. in this poem, the main character may be a hero who travels nice distances to prove his strength at not possible odds against supernatural demons and beasts. in the poem, beowulf was a young warrior and he leaves his country to hrothgar, as hrothgar was in a great trouble.