What geographical factors may have helped to speed industrial development in the city of Liverpool?

the need to have concentrations of labor in areas close to raw materials where factories would be based (e.g., the Ruhr in Germany), the need for marketing finished products at places with access to rail or water.

Explanation:

that would be the steamboat because none of the other things are forms of transportation

answer:

it caused mass african migration, african populations to grow, african empires to topple, and racism against slaves to emerge.