Coal, Steam, and The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course World History #32
Coal, Steam, and The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course World History #32
In what might be called the most revolutionary of modern revolutions, the Industrial Revolution changed the lives of more people more dramatically than any of the modern political revolutions.
Key Ideas
As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.
Key Ideas
Think about the following questions as you watch the video
- 00:18 How is the Industrial Revolution different from other revolutions, like the American, French, Latin American, and Haitian revolutions?
- 01:48 What kind of work did most people do before the Industrial Revolution?
- 02:15 What is the definition of the Industrial Revolution?
- 02:30 When and where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
- 04:10 What is Eurocentrism and why have explanations for the Industrial Revolution sometimes been called Eurocentric?
- 05:50 Why have some historians criticized the Eurocentric focus on cultural superiority?
- 07:05 If cultural superiority can’t explain why the Industrial Revolution began in England, what other factors might explain it?
- 08:15 Why were wages so important?