Coal, steam, and the Industrial Revolution발음듣기
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Coal, steam, and the Industrial Revolution
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This is Crash Course world history and today we're going to discuss the series of events that made it possible for you to watch Crash Course.발음듣기
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Although it occurred around the same time as the French, American, Latin-American and Haitian Revolutions between say 1750 and 1850, the Industrial Revolution was really the most revolutionary of the bunch. No way dude.발음듣기
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But in all that time nothing much changed about the way we disposed of waste or located drinking water or acquired clothing.발음듣기
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In all those millenial we never developed a weapon that could kill more than a couple dozen people at once or a way to travel faster than horseback.발음듣기
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For 15,000 years most humans never owned or used a single item made outside of their communities.발음듣기
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You have electricity, Industrial Revolution. Blueberries in February, Industrial Revolution.발음듣기
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Your bed, your antibiotics, your toilet, your contraception, your tap water, your every waking and sleeping second, Industrial Revolution.발음듣기
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Before the Industrial Revolution about 80% of the world's population was engaged in farming to keep itself and the other 20% of people from starving.발음듣기
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So what happened? Technology. Here's my definition:The Industrial Revolution was an increase in production brought about by the use of machines and characterized by the use of new energy sources.발음듣기
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Although this will soon get more complicated, for our purposes today, industrialization is not capitalism, although as we will see next week, it is connected to modern capitalism.발음듣기
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And the Industrial Revolution began around 1750 and it occurred across most of the earth but it started in Europe, especially Britain. What happened? Well let's go to the thought bubble.발음듣기
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The invention of the flying shuttle by John Kay in 1733 dramatically increased the speed of weaving, which in turn created demand for yarn, which led to inventions like the Spinning Jenny and the Waterframe.발음듣기
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Soon these processes were mechanized using water power until the steam engine came along to make flying shuttles really fly in these huge cotton mills.발음듣기
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The most successful steam engine was built by Thomas, they didn't name anything after me, Newcomen, to clear water out of mines, and because water was cleared out of those mines, there was more coal to power more steam engines, which eventually led to the fancying up of the Newcomen steam engine by James,발음듣기
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I've got a unit of power and a University named after me, Watt, whose engine made possible not only railroads and steamboats, but also ever more efficient cotton mills.발음듣기
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For the first time, chemicals other than stale urine, I wish I was kidding, were being used to bleach the cloth that people wore.발음듣기
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The first of which was sulfuric acid, which was created in large quantities only thanks to lead wine chambers, which would have been impossible without lead production rising dramatically right around 1750 in Britain thanks to lead boundaries powered by coal.발음듣기
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All of these factories came together to make more yarn that could be spun and bleached faster and cheaper than ever before.발음듣기
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A process that would eventually culminate in $18 Crash Course mongol shirts available now at DFTBA.com.발음듣기
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Thanks thought bubble for that shameless promotion of our beautiful high quality t-shirts available now at DFTBA.com.발음듣기
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So the problem here is that with industrialization being so deeply interconnected, it's really difficult to figure out why it happened in Europe, especially Britain.발음듣기
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And that question of why turns out to be one of the most contentious discussions in world history today.발음듣기
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For instance, here are some Eurocentric reasons why industrialization might have happened first in Europe.발음듣기
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There is the culture superiority argument that basically holds Europeans are just better and smarter than other people.발음듣기
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By the way, you'll never guess where the people who make this argument tend to come from, unless you guess that they come from Europe.발음듣기
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And then others argue that only Europe had the culture of science and invention that made the creation of these revolutionary technologies possible.발음듣기
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Another argument is that freer political institutions encouraged innovation and strong property rights created incentives for inventors.발음듣기
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And finally people often site Europe's small population because small populations required labor-saving inventions.발음듣기
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(music) An open letter to the steam engine, but first let's see what's in the secret compartment today.발음듣기
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Almost all electricity around the world, whether it's from coal or nuclear power, it's just a steam engine.발음듣기
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So you may have heard any of those rationales for European Industrialization or you may have heard others.발음듣기
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The problem with all of them is that each time you think you're at the root cause, it turns out there's a cause of the root cause. A quote Leonardo DeCaprrio, James Cameron in Coal Mine Operators, "We have to go deeper."발음듣기
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But anyway, the problem with the Eurocentric why answers is that they all apply to either China or India or both.발음듣기
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And it's really important to note that in 1800 it was not clear that Europe was going to become the world's dominant manufacturing power in the next 100 years.발음듣기
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At the time China, India and Europe were all roughly at the same place in terms of industrial production.발음듣기
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First let's look at China. It's hard to make the European cultural superiority argument because China had been recording its history since before Confucius and plus there was all that bronze and painting and poetry.발음듣기
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It's also kind of difficult to make a blanket statement that China was economically inferior to Europe since they invented paper money and led the world in exports of everything from silk to china.발음듣기
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I mean pre-industrial revolution population growth was the surest sign of economic success and China had the biggest population in the world.발음듣기
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It's also difficult to say that China lacked the culture of invention when they invented gun powder, and printing and paper and arguably compasses.발음듣기
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Some argue that China couldn't have free enterprise because they had a long history of trying to impose monopolies on items like salt and iron.발음듣기
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And that's true but when it comes to enforcing those monopolies, they also had a long history of failure.발음듣기
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So really in a lot of ways China was at least as prime for an Industrial Revolution as Britain was, so why didn't it happen?발음듣기
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When you trace the story of improved transportation or communication or industrial efficiency, or better chemical manufacturing, it always comes back to coal.발음듣기
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The Industrial Revolution was all about using different forms of energy to automate production and England had large amounts of coal that were near the surface, which meant it was cheap to mine, so it quickly replaced wood for heating and cooking and stuff.발음듣기
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The only problem with coal mining, aside from it being deadly and everything, is that the coal mines flooded all the time.발음듣기
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I guess coal mining is also a little problematic for the health and [unintelligible] of the planet.발음듣기
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Because there was all this incentive to get the coal out of the ground, steam engines were invented to pump water out of the mines, and because those early steam engines were super inefficient, they needed a cheap and abundant source of fuel in order to work, namely coal, which meant they were much more useful to the British than anyone else.발음듣기
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So steam engines used cheap British coal to keep British coal cheap, and cheap British coal created the opportunity for everything from railroads to steel, which like so much else in the Industrial Revolution, created a positive feedback loop.발음듣기
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Because they run on rails, railroads need steel and because it is rather heavy, steel needs railroads. Secondly there were wages.발음듣기
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Britain, and to a lesser extent the low countries, had the highest wages in the world at the beginning of the 18th century.발음듣기
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One argument is that the black death lowered population so much that it tightened labor markets but that doesn't explain why wages remained low in plague-ravaged Italy.발음듣기
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Mainly high wages combined with cheap fuel cost meant that it was economically efficient for manufacturers to look to machines as a way of lowering their production costs.발음듣기
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These prices "led directly to the Industrial Revolution by giving firm strong incentives to invent "technologies that substituted capital and coal for labor."발음듣기
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Europe gave me many of my favorite cheeses and cross country skiing and Charlie Chaplin. Who inspired today's Danica drawing.발음듣기
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Like the fact of coal being near the surface in Britain can't be chalked up to British cultural superiority but the wages question is a little different because it makes it sound like only Europeans were smart enough to pay high wages.발음듣기
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India was the world's largest producer of cotton textiles despite paying basically the lowest wages in the world.발음듣기
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And that, coupled with a large population, meant that Indian textile manufacturing could be very productive without using machines, so they didn't need to industrialize.발음듣기
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But more importantly from our perspective, there is a strong argument to be made that Indian cotton production helped spur British industrialization.발음듣기
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It was cotton textiles that drove the early Industrial Revolution and the main reason that Britain was so eager to produce cotton was that demand was incredibly high.발음듣기
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They were more comfortable than woolens but they were also cheaper because cottons could be imported from India at such a low cost.발음듣기
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So Indian cottons created the market and then British manufacturers invested in machines and imported Indian know-how to increase production so that they could compete with india.발음듣기
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And that's how at least one way in which European Industrialization was truly a world phenomenon.발음듣기
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For those of you who enjoy such highly contentious and thorny cultural historical debates, good news, next week we'll be talking about capitalism.발음듣기
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