Coal, Steam, and The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course World History #32

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I half expected that when he ended the ramblings about how everything in our lives was due to the industrial revolution, he would say "unless you're the Mongols."

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The second half of the video is very simplistic. Firstly, Europe had a long history of mechanized production way before the steam engine and "cheap coal". Water powered and mechanized mills appeared in Europe as back as the 12th century. And there were aspects of industrialism way before the industrial revolution. For examle, let´s look at paper. Although invented in China in 105 AD, it was always a small production artisan process to make it. It´s only when it came to Europe that we first see economies of scale and mechanization. The first paper mill dates to 1276 Italy. When Johannes Gutenberg invented his printing press in 1440, it was a matter of entrepreneurialism, not just individual genius or "making inventions". He studied in a university, traveled to Strasbourg, made a business deal with merchants who provided him with venture capital for the development. Which he then used to assemble a team of artisans, who provided several years of engineering and inventions of their own to make it happen. Trying to beat the competition breathing on their back... And of course, the only reason the printing press was ever useful was because by that time paper was produced in giant mills, where cloth rags were beaten to a paper pulp by water powered hammers. The printing press then fueled Renaissance and education, wich fueled inovation and so on. You mentioned how the textile industry started it all, but the "flying shuttle" was invented by John Kay in 1733 and the "spinning jenny" was invented by James Hargreaves in 1764. The first textile factory of Comford Mill was built by Richard Arkwright in 1772 and was powered by water wheel. So by the time James Watt invented his steam engine in 1778, to make it´s impact, the industrial revolution already begun.

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I feel like there was a lot here about the outcome and not much about the process... The industrial revolution completely reformed British society, as people gathered from the countryside to form huge cities in order to work in factories. This sudden and unprecedented change came with all sorts of problems, and working conditions were horrendous, but the new working order and lowered costs of mass produced items like bread and clothes, along with their newly available education, gave former peasants the chance to rise and create the middle class. The railway network that drastically altered Europe paved the wartime supply lines, while steamboats improved cross-atlantic trade: things which had great impact on the people's way of life. Those dense industrial cities still exist, although their trade wealth is gone, factories replaced by offices; the clustered red brick houses still stand; the canals run between them; Ireland still makes expensive linen, and until the 80s Wales still mined coal. Even the co-operative is still running banks, supermarkets and funeral care.

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People debate about your euro/anti-euro centrism, because you put so much effort every episode into talking about how europe/US/rest of the world isn't superior to the others, and how unbiased you are. It's just moralistic, ethinic-prude, prig behaviour* . The topic is the industrial revolution that happened in Britain? "Hey, Hey, better spend 1 tenth of the episode stating that british aren't any better than others! Just to be sure that nobody on the internet thinks that we are euro-centristic". Result? People debate about you euro/anti-euro centrism rather than talking about history. God, i like how you show the world perspective. Clarifying that it didn't happen in Asia even though it was as advanced as GB for this and that reason, and that the revolution is due to a global interconnection of trades is stating facts and causal links, which is the reason people find history interesting. You are already blinking both eyes to whoever has a "we western-country-people are not any superior to anybody else" pride (europe, america and australia is your audience i guess), which isn't egalitarian, it's western self-blame. Exaclty as how some white people is scared to say "black man" even when is context relevant fearing to be exposed as a racist. Which in itself is even more racist. *(sorry for the long list of adjectives, i'm not a native english speaker and i don't know the sligh difference of those words)

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[@brightmal]

Another look at why the industrial era kicked off in Europe is the book "Guns, Germs, and Steel". I strongly advise reading it.

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Wow, very fun and helpful video for me. thank you!

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Summary of industrial revolution in one sentence : 2:21 If you have to find one like I did for school

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dying rn bc i have a final tmrw about this stuff and i think my teacher lowkey hates me so i gotta do well, ty john

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Oh ! It means you are watching this for entertainment rather than to know something about industrialization!!!!!!

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Thanks to this video I got an A+ on my test about the industrial revolution.

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My history teacher used to play these videos and when now i see them they remind me of her :(

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Yes I am quarantined at home studying for a discussion board. It's our first week online.

[@blixten2928]

Nothing about imperialism as a motor for European industrial revolution. Otherwise, fantastic as always!

[@carl_fastlj384]

Enclosure movement --> free labour --> new industries and more employment within industries --> increased production/productivity --> increased trade --> higher wages --> better standards of living --> higher demand and investments --> access to a lot of capital --> new innovations, better transportation, and new machinery --> industrial revolution. Anything missing?

[@pedroheberle6665]

Great video, John, just one objection: it was iron rather than steel that, along with coal, fueled the whole thing up in the beginning, including that virtuous railroad cycle that you mentioned - and that for the better part of the nineteenth century. My source is Hobsbawm, who claims that even the "Age of Capital" (ending in 1875) was still an age of iron, not one of steel.

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Knowing how this is 11 years ago and hw this looks like a video made 2 days ago.

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Thank you so much for making

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[@rlbadger1698]

If you read down the comments you get arguments about coal production and economic environments, ect.. But the one thing you don't get is the one glaring difference from every where else. The concept, idea, and craze (fad) of invention to get rich. The spinning jenny was the first invention to make it's inventor rich. The idea that you could invent something and get rich was what made the industrial revolution.

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[@nton8057]

So the industrial revolution happened first in Britain because the lower population meant people were payed more than business owners liked .Prompting business owners to save money by replacing people with automatic machines which were more efficient and cheaper compared to humans, a transition which was facilitated due to the abundance of coal in britain, which would be used to fuel the machines. So in the end it was all about greed.

[@nton8057]

Russian/French/American revolutions were done to combat tyranny.

[@nton8057]

***** That's not greed, it's more like trying to get a fair system for the americans who were overtaxed, But not for the French they were going through an agricultural disaster which produced a nasty famine.The King couldn't care less and was a self indulgent tyrant and so were the nobles who owned the land who kept taking even more harvest in spite of the famine. They had a corrupt voting system which wasn't per person but per social order the rich, the church and the "peoples". meaning there were always 3 votes each time. Any decision favouring disadvantaging was voted against by the rich order and the church almost always sided with them meaning it was always 2 to 1 against the "peoples" order, this system was purposefully created since if each individual voted the rich would lose each time since they were only about 1% the population and so was the church. This pretty much made a revolution inevitable in France.

[@nton8057]

***** yeah true I was thinking more about the motivation. So it would be likely be something like resentment / anger / desperation.

[@lightyear3429]

You are confusing greed and ideals. It couldn't have happened purely because of the lack of food: it was injustice that motivated the revolutionaries the most. It's not right when the majority dies from hunger and live in misery, while the minority enjoys carefree lives at the expense of others. Realizing that is a long process. For centuries people had been too afraid/ingnorant and most importantly thought it was a natural order of things - they thought the kings/nobles have a divine right to have it all, so it's fair. The Enlightment changed that particular point: the people believed it wasn't right, that it can be different and so it did become different. It's not like the people would have risen if they thought the nobles earned their money (and if the nobles were not such unfair dicks to them). PS Though, of course, the revolutionary leaders is a different topic entirely. Green talked a little about this in some of his revolutions video - that in the end of the day most of those leaders come to the believe that they have more rights to possess the resources than the ordinary revolutionaries, so the cycle continues, but in lesser extent.

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pretty much

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3:57 that was one hell of a plug.

[@WobblyDave72]

I live in Telford, where it all started - (technically in Coalbrookdale) - which is odd because very few people outside the UK have heard of it or know of its signficance. Without the iron, coal and water in the same place - you needed the smelted iron in order make the strength behind the machines to increase the industrialization. Cast iron was just too brittle and impure to be useful. Surely it is the convergence of these elements together that started it all off?

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