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I'm not a coward! I just don't want to die up there! It's all your fault, Hiram Maxim, and nobody believes your story about the light bulb.

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Alright, so here is something that often gets overlooked.

European imperialism involved a lot of fighting and a lot of dying.

He celebrated his imperial success by commissioning an opera, Giuseppe Verdi's Aida, for the opening of the Cairo Opera House in 1871.

Giuseppe Verdi, by the way, no relation.

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And Ismail had ambitions of extending Egypt's control up the Nile west toward Lake Chad, but to do that he needed money, and that's where he got into trouble.

It's because I don't like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people.

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In Japan, nationalism meant modernization, largely inspired by and in competition with the West.

So the Meiji government established a functioning tax system, they built public infrastructure like harbors and telegraph lines, invested heavily in railroads, and created a uniform national currency.

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We're ably interned by Meredith Danko, and our graphics team is Thought Bubble.

Also, the show was written by my high school history student, John Green, and myself, Raoul Mayer.

Last week's Phrase of the Week was bearded Marxist.

Hi, I'm John Green, 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.

And also made this studio possible.

And made the warehouse containing the studio possible.

It's all still just water and heat.

And it speaks to how truly revolutionary the Industrial Revolution was, that since then, it's really just been evolution.

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So you may have heard any of those rationales for European industrialization, or you may have heard others.

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.

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Hi, I'm John Green, this is Crash Course World History, and today things are going to get a little bit confusing because we're going to talk about revolution and independence in Latin America.

It's a bit confusing because one, Latin America is big.

Two, it's very diverse.

Put that in your luggage.

Anyway, Fantastic Life, I just wish you'd nailed it a little bit better with your last words.

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So by 1825, almost the entire Western Hemisphere, with a few exceptions in the Caribbean, was free from European rule.

North America was very much occupied.

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This'll do.

In 2023, researchers confirmed that human footprints preserved in the mud in what's now New Mexico were as many as 23,000 years old, thousands of years before Europeans came.

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This is Crash Course World History and today we're gonna make it rain.

We're gonna talk about money, the stuff that makes the world go round.

It's my great regret to inform you that there are some paltry beards trying to take up the class struggle these days.

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Although he's often considered the father of communism because he co-wrote the Communist Manifesto, Marx was above all a philosopher and a historian.

It's just that unlike

I've got needs over here.

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So continued defeat and the death of his troops eventually convinced Napoleon to give up his dreams of an American empire and cut his losses.

He recalled all his surviving troops of the 40,000 who left, only 8,000 made it back, and then he sold Thomas Jefferson, Louisiana.