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Hi, I’m John Green;

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this is Crash Course World History

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and today we’re going to discuss
the series of events

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that made it possible for you to watch

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Crash Course.

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And also made this studio possible.

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And made the warehouse containing the studio
possible.

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A warehouse, by the way,

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that houses stuff for warehouses.

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That’s right, it’s time to talk about

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the industrial revolution.

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Although it occurred around
the same time as

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the French, American, Latin American,
and Haitian Revolutions—

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between, say, 1750 and 1850—

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the industrial revolution was really

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the most revolutionary of the bunch.

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No way, dude.

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All those other revolutions resulted in,

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like,

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new borders and flags and stuff.

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We’ve studied 15,000 years
of history here at Crash Course,

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Me from the Past.

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And borders and flags
have changed plenty,

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and they’re going to keep changing.
[that's a twofer: awesome + ominous]

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But in all that time,

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nothing much changed about

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the way we disposed of waste
[g'luck with toilet teching, Bill Gates!]

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or located drinking water or
acquired clothing.

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Most people lived on or very close
to the land that provided their food.

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[like above an Eata Pita?]

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Except for a few exceptions,

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life expectancy never rose
above 35 or below 25.

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Education was a privilege not a right.

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In all those millennia,

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we never developed a weapon

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that could kill more than
a couple dozen people at once,

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or a way to travel faster
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For 15,000 years,

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most humans never owned
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made outside of their communities.

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Simon Bolivar didn’t change that

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and neither did the American
Declaration of Independence.

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You have electricity?

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Industrial revolution.

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Blueberries in February?

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Industrial revolution.

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You live somewhere other
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Industrial revolution.

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You drive a car?

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Industrial revolution.

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You get twelve years of free,
formal education?

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[peep the creepy teacher in the back]

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Industrial revolution.

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Your bed,

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your antibiotics,

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your toilet,

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your contraception,

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your tap water,

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your every waking
and sleeping second:

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[mongol-tage footage!]

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Industrial revolution.

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[Intro music]

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Here’s one simple statistic
that sums it up:

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Before the industrial revolution,

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about 80% of the world’s population
was engaged in farming

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to keep itself and the other
20% of people from starving.

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Today, in the United States,

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less than 1% of people
list their occupation as farming.

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I mean,

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we’ve come so far that we don’t
even have to farm flowers anymore.

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Stan,

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are these real, by the way?

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I can’t tell if they’re made
out of foam or digital.

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So what happened?

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TECHNOLOGY!

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Here’s my definition:

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The industrial revolution was
an increase in production

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brought about by the use of machines
[get ready to man-suit up, Skynet]

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and characterized by
the use of new energy sources.

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Although this will soon
get more complicated,

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for our purposes today,

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industrialization is NOT capitalism—

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although, as we will see next week,

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it is connected to modern capitalism.

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And,

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the industrial revolution
began around 1750 and

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it occurred across most of the earth,

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but it started in Europe,
especially Britain.

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What happened?

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Well, let’s go to the Thought Bubble.

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The innovations of the
Industrial Revolution

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were intimately interconnected.

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Like,

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look, for instance,
at the British textile industry:

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The invention of the flying shuttle
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dramatically increased the
speed of weaving,

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which in turn
created demand for yarn,

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which led to inventions like the Spinning
Jenny

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and the waterframe.
[& later, Princess Leia bun sock hats]

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Soon these processes were
mechanized using water power,

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until the steam engine came along
to make flying shuttles really fly

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in these huge cotton mills.

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The most successful steam engine
was built by

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Thomas “They Didn’t Name
Anything After Me” Newcomen

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[is that Dutch?]

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to clear water out of mines.

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And because water was
cleared out of those mines,

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there was more coal to
power more steam engines,

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which eventually led to

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the fancying up of the Newcomen
Steam Engine by

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James “I Got a Unit of Power and
a University Named After Me” Watt,

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[Farnsworth's raw deal tops, even still]

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whose engine made possible not
only railroads and steamboats but

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also ever-more efficient cotton mills.
[the touch, the feel… of technology]

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And, for the first time,

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chemicals other than stale urine,
[you must be kidding]

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I wish I was kidding,

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were being used to bleach
the cloth that people wore—

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the first of which was sulfuric acid,
[sounds super chafey]

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which was created in large quantities
only thanks to lead-lined chambers,

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which would’ve been impossible
without lead production

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rising dramatically right
around 1750 in Britain,

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thanks to lead foundries
powered by coal.

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And all these factors came together
to make more yarn

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that could be spun and bleached
faster and cheaper than ever before,

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a process that would eventually
culminate in

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$18 Crash Course Mongols shirts.

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[no exceptions!&$%# ] [ha]

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Available now at DFTBA.com.

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Thanks, Thought Bubble,

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for that shameless promotion of our
beautiful, high-quality t-shirts available

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now at DFTBA.com.
[TeamCrashCourse: lousy with subtlty]

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So, the problem here

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is that with industrialization
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it’s really difficult to figure out why
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especially Britain.

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And that question of why

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turns out to be one of
the more contentious discussions

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in world history today.

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For instance, here are some Eurocentric reasons

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why industrialization might have
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There’s the cultural superiority
argument that basically holds

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that Europeans are just better
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[somebody explain Mr. Bean then]

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Sometimes this is formulated as Europeans
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superior rationality.

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By the way, you’ll never guess

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where the people who make this
argument tend to come from—

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unless you guessed that
they come from Europe.

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And then, others argue

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that only Europe had the culture of
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that made the creation of these
revolutionary technologies possible.

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Another argument is that freer political
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and strong property rights
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And, finally, people often cite
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because small populations
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Oh,

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it’s time for the Open Letter?

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[it's not the yellow chair he's rolling
over to so I just can't bear to look.]

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An Open Letter to the Steam Engine.

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But first,

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let’s see what’s in
the secret compartment today.

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Oh, it’s a Tardis.
[you're welcome, Whovians]

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Truly the apex of
British industrialization.

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Dear Steam Engine,

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You know what’s crazy?

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You’ve really never been
improved upon.

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Like this thing,

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which facilitates time travel,

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probably runs on a steam engine.
[Eye of Harmony > steam engine, ftr]

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Almost all electricity around the world,

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whether it’s from coal
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is just a steam engine.

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It’s all still just water and heat,

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and it speaks to how truly revolutionary

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the Industrial Revolution
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it’s really just been evolution.

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Best Wishes,
John Green

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So, you may have heard any of
those rationales for

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European industrialization,

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or you may have heard others.

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The problem with all of them,

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is that each time you think
you’re at the root cause

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it turns out there’s a cause
of the root cause.

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[not unlike the show LOST]

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To quote
Leonardo diCaprio, James Cameron,

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and coal mine operators,

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“We have to go deeper.”
["Context is everything." -John Green]

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But, anyway, the problem
with these Eurocentric why answers,

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is that they all apply to either
China or India or both.

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And it’s really important
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it was not clear that Europe
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the world’s dominant manufacturing
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China, India, and Europe were
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in terms of industrial production.

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First, let’s look at China.

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It’s hard to make the European
cultural superiority argument

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because China had been recording
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and plus there was all that
bronze and painting and poetry.

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It’s also kind of difficult to make a
blanket statement that

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China was economically
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since they invented paper money

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and led the world in exports of
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I mean, pre-Industrial Revolution,

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population growth was the
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and China had the
biggest population in the world.

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[were my flowers just assaulted by educational
exuberance?]

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I guess that answers the question
of whether they’re digital.

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[better be in stock at thinkgeek.com, mr.
green. just saying...]

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It’s also difficult to say that China
lacked a culture of invention

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when they invented
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and arguably compasses.

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And China had more free enterprise
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than anywhere in the world.

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Some argue that China
couldn’t have free enterprise

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because they had a long history
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on items like salt and iron.

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And that’s true,

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but when it comes to
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they also had a long history of failure.

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So really, in a lot of ways,

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China was at least as primed for an
Industrial Revolution as Britain was.

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So, why didn’t it happen?

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Well, Europeans—

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specifically the British—

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had two huge advantages:

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First, Coal.

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When you trace the story of improved
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or industrial efficiency,

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or better chemical manufacturing,

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it always comes back to coal,

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because the Industrial Revolution
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of energy to automate production.

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England had large supplies of coal
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which meant that
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so it quickly replaced wood
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So, that encouraged the British
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The only problem with coal mining,

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aside from it being,

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you know, like,

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deadly and everything,

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is that the coal mines flooded
all the time.

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I guess coal mining is also
a little problematic for, like,

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the health of,

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you know, like, the planet.

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["Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
Know what I mean?"]

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But,

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because there was all this incentive
to get more coal out of the ground,

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steam engines were invented
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they needed a cheap and abundant
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which meant they were much more
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So steam engines used cheap British
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and cheap British coal
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for everything from railroads to steel,

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which like so much else in
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created a positive feedback loop.

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Because they run on rails,
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steel needs railroads.

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Britain (and to a lesser extent
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had the highest wages in the world
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In 1725, wages in London were the equivalent
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of silver per day.

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In Beijing, Venice, and Florence,
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And in Delhi, they were under 2.

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It’s not totally clear why
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one argument is that the Black Death
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that it tightened labor markets,

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but that doesn’t explain why
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plague-ravaged Italy.

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Mainly, high wages combined
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that it was economically efficient for
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as a way of lowering their
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To quote the historian Robert Allen:

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“Wages were high and energy was cheap. These
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by giving firms strong incentives to invent
technologies that substituted capital and

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coal for labor.”

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Stan,

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I’m a little worried that people are still
going to accuse me of Eurocentrism.

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Of course,

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other people will accuse me
of an anti-European bias.

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I don’t have a bias against Europe.

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I love Europe.

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Europe gave me many of
my favorite cheeses

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and cross-country skiing

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and Charlie Chaplin,

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who inspired today’s Danica drawing.
[big ups, Modern Times. you endure]

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Like, the fact of coal being
near the surface in Britain

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can’t be chalked up to
British cultural superiority.

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But the wages question is a little different
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it makes it sound like only Europeans were
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But here’s one last thing to consider:

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India was the world’s largest
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despite paying basically
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Indian agriculture was so productive
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at a very low cost.

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And that,
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could be very productive
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so they didn’t need to industrialize.

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But more importantly from
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there’s a strong argument to be made

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that Indian cotton production
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It was cotton textiles that drove
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and the main reason that Britain
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was that demand was incredibly high.

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They were more comfortable than
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because cottons could be imported
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Indian cottons created the market

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and then British manufacturers
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(and imported Indian know-how)

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to increase production so that
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And that’s at least one way
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was truly a world phenomenon.

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For those of you who enjoy
such highly contentious and thorny,

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cultural historical debates, good news.

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Next week,

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we’ll be talking about capitalism.

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[can't wait to read the comments
section for that one. yes i can]

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Thanks for watching, I’ll see you then.

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produced and directed
by Stan Muller.

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Our script supervisor
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The show is written by my
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Raoul Meyer, and myself.

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We are ably interned
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