Sher,
You are confusing cause and effect. Britain colonised (looted) Asia and Africa BECAUSE it was the birthplace of the industrialized world and not the way around as you put it when you wrote ‘The UK is the birthplace of the industrialized world, because it looted Asia and Africa.’

Britain and other European nations were able to discover and subdue most of the globe because of processes that were native to Europe, only and nowhere else, principally Western Europe. The Age of Enlightenment gave rise to the Industrial Revolution which built on the scientific discoveries and technological advances made during the Enlightenment. There is no definite dating but Enlightenment started around 1650 as a rule.

The Industrial Revolution was a transition to a modern manufacturing (think guns, ships, advanced tools) and took place from 1760 to 1820. Most historians agree it started in Britain, mainly, and spread to the rest of Europe.