Coal, Steam, and The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course World History #32
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...where is yellow chair...
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lol, that was one intense introduction
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to achieve socialism one must be communist and turn into a capitalist
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it is better
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do the mystery document
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awesome and help full for my exam! =)
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now i know that the flower was not digital!
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Is this for real? Apparently he's never heard of the EIC- the East India Company- and why not? Because this is the real reason for the Industrial Revolution constantly hushed up and overlooked by "academics" as it's just a teeny bit bad. He was on the right track when he finally mentioned India at the end, but got it hopelessly muddled up. Subjugation of India by the Brits was a nasty affair and not one the Brits or westerners want to acknowledge. Why didn't he just get to India straight away and forget all the gobbledegook? Necessity being the mother of invention, the British East India Company destroyed the Indian textile base after the government erected trade barriers against importation of cheap Indian textiles. The inventions were a cheaper means of using the now landless English peasants after the enclosures to make their own textiles to sell to India and other places (after we'd viciously destroyed the Indian economy). You'll need to delve and do some research, which is why these pithy 10 or 15 minute youtube things are a waste of time. Whatever you do, DON'T go to the BBC- they just happen to be extremely British and verrrry propagandistic and they certainly won't let on as to why the Ind Rev happened in the UK.
Watch Vinay Lal, also on youtube, for a proper explanation-there's a reason why he's considered to be a "dangerous" professor- cos he speaks the truth, and the truth hurts.
I live in the middle of the place where the industrial revolution started, in Belper, Derbyshire, UK. I have met nobody who knows why it started here. Arkwrights mills are 9 miles up the road and the very first factory is 9 miles down the road in Derby. People here are NOT taught about the industrial revolution, at school or ever, even though it started, literally, on their doorsteps. The reason? Propaganda. We're constantly blowing our own trumpets about our own superiority with inventors and their inventions, but never mentioning the real reasons. If the people really knew, then they may not be quite so "God Bless The Queen"-like and nationalistic and their blatantly racist views would have to be amended somewhat. Racism and ignorance fuel this country, especially with regard to it's vile foreign policies. The East India Company is now the UK government- no change after 159 years ! -
7:56 But China had also an abundance of coal!!
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2:19 New energy? Despite of existing for millions of years? That energy was only new, because we're to dumb to figure it out!
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Liberal white hating European hating garbage... Bet this cunts real happy Trump won
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I just noticed this was in 2012 ... :/
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Thomas Savery -1698- Steam Engine-uses to pump waiter from tin mines
Thomas Newcomen-1709 Steam Engine - used to pump water from coal mines
Flying Shuttle -John Kay 1733 -weaving
Spinning Jenny- James Hargreaves 1764 -spinning
Steam Engine -James Watt 1769 - powered by Steam to move machinery
Water frame - Richard Arkwright -1769 - spinning
mule -Samuel Crompton -1779 -spinning
Power Loom - Edmund Cartwright 1789 -weaving -
The other reason which aided Industrial revolution in Europe, especially Britain was their navy. The Europeans had strong navies and thus trade came easy to them. Thus financial centres were established in such countries, again specifically Britain. These in turn could finance the inventions and innovations which aided the Revolution.
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Aaahhh Europe
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If only Ned Lud and his gang of Luddites had stopped all the industrial nonsense before it was too late....
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I think that this video provides a lot of points with which I agree with, but I think that it missed a particular point being the British empire and the fact that the British government focused its foreign policy on financial policy. Britain invaded countries, monopolised industry and made these countries dependent on their colonial overlords, being the British. This meant that there was guaranteed market for British products, making it more likely that after investment, in mechanising production, they were a lot more likely to make the money back and earn a lot more. Giving a larger incentive for investment, hence more mechanisation.
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this is ebola, a new revolution
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So is science more important than politics? They seem heavily connected.
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