What Caused the Industrial Revolution? AP Euro Bit by Bit #28
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Industrialization was bound to happen at some point, but why did it happen in Britain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries? Well, that's what I'm talking about in this episode of Bit by Bit. Learn what factors enabled the British to lead the world into the modern industrial age while you are amazed by the entrepreneurial ingenuity of today's industrial economy. All that and a special guest star: Mount Rushmore!
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What a load of hogwash!!! According to this person we just happened to build factories- for no particular reason- wow. I live in the middle of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Amber Valley, Derbyshire, UK, where the industrial revolution started and the amount of people who say what Paul Sargent says is amazing. Nobody really knows why the industrial revolution started here, in the UK. The reason? Because the Brits' Empire started in India, which became the "Jewel in the Crown". We traded with India, from 1601 and from 1757 we absolutely destroyed India. India had the best textiles and cottons etc which the East India Company, (which you fail to mention) imported. Eventually, the UK government erected trade barriers against the EIC's textiles imports as it was making the home cottage industry workers unemployed. You fail also to mention that the Land Enclosures kicked the Commoners off what had been their lands for centuries, forcing them in to towns and cities, desperate for work. Arkwright didn't just suddenly decide to build factories!!!! He wanted to export home produced textiles cheaply (with cotton from the slave industry- also neglected by you) with all too readily available employees and necessity being the mother of invention, the mills were designed with their new equipment. Coal wasn't used with these mills- they were water mills!!!! Coal came into things a bit later on, especially with the advent of the railways and steam pumps etc.
So, because the Brits were in India, creating devastation, we exported our textiles to India AFTER we'd decimated their textile trade. This is the nature of the Europeans and why so many people persist in this racist attitude of ignorance in perpetuating the myths of the reasons for the start of the industrial revolution. My own Conservative M.P. (Member of Parliament) DOESN'T know why the ind rev started here. She is going to persist with the Eurocentric and racist teaching in schools which people like Paul Sargent so ignorantly advocate. (See Vinay Lal on youtube and others). -
oh god why
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That was beautiful
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Oh my goodness, how cheesy is that Mt Rushmore LOL. I LOL'd so hard Paul.
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