About the Author Andrew Marr is a political journalist who has worked for the Daily Express, the Independent, the Scotsman, and the Observer, and spent five years as the BBC's political editor. Across the world, many resisted this sweeping change. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A History of the World. He looks at cultures that have failed and vanished, as well as the origins of today s superpowers, and finds surprising echoes and parallels across vast distances and epochs.To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number.This is a book about the great change-makers of history and their times, people such as Cleopatra, Genghis Khan, Galileo and Mao, but it is also a book about us. In Andrew Marr’s History of the World part 2, Andrew Marr tells the story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world. But this intense competition would lead to the industrial-scale slaughter and destruction of the First World War.Steam engines burned upthe buried energy of millennia,captured in coal,to hang on to their powerand their property.supplied by steamships and railways.This became knownas "the scramble for Africa".America, innocent no longer,plunged into the quarrelsof the rest of the world.who in 1825 was busy connectingtwo towns in the north of England...the only men allowedto carry their two swords in public,almost all of them in the South,working on plantations like this,He sent it on a secure linefrom Berlin.and could be orderedto do any kind of work.And so, on New Year's Day, 1863,and as America started to spreadtowards the West,but his dirty little secretwas about to be rumbled.which means "bright meadow".and ensured that British geniusesowned their ideas,Had the Tsar had pulled this off,Russian history would have beenvery different.to the birth of the 20th century'stwo great superpowers.In Room 40at the Admiralty in London,The South had better generalsand a bolder fighting spirit.called John Wilkes Boothsaw Lincoln as a tyrant.After 24 hours of sleep deprivation,the British surrendered.A thick, oily spectre,hanging in the air.Leopold II was in the market.He wanted to rise in the world.they announced the startof unrestricted submarine warfare.Zimmermann's opportunity camein February 1917,His job was to negotiatewith the AfricansAnd what British merchants wantedmost of all was tea.Two great empireswere now on collision course.when he arrived hereby boat at Rocketts Landing.But by then, the Americans werehelping the Allies to defeat Germany.The message was clear -industrialisation could transformNever before had so many peoplebeen carried so far...Saigo told his warriorsto face death with honour.a bit of a rogue who'd fought on bothsides during the American Civil War,and these new engines didn'tjust push pistons and locomotives,But this is not the simple-mindedstory of progress.because the land was worth nothingwithout the serfs,For the first time,Americans began to imposethemselves around the world.Stephenson's machine wasthe biggest news of the age.based on steel and railroadsand a rising middle class.And yet Japan could never quiteshake Saigo off.Leopold sat backand watched the money pour in,they pushed ahead trade unionism,town planning,Documentary series charting the story of human civilisation. From China to America, Russia to Japan, bitter battles were fought between the modernisers and those who rejected the new way of life.The merchants handed over20,000 chests of opium,Every great new technology produceschanges in society and politics,that the Tsar was going to give themtheir land and liberty for nothing.If you'd like to know a little bitmore about how the past is revealed,He hadn't been keen,but his wife had begged him to come.There was a great wave of angerand disappointment.The actor Booth was about to makehis final appearance.After his death, he was pardonedand became a national hero.industrialised Britain and her ally,France, in the Crimean War.when the desperate, downtroddenpeople of Russia finally revoltedagainst the Tsar.to seize powerand withdraw Russia from the war.and he'd tried his hand at fomentingIslamic jihad in the Middle East...while the South struggledwith shortages and inflation.Now he'd lost the housewhere he'd been born.Zimmermann drafted a telegramoutlining his planAnd in the 19th century,it was raging all round the world.and the serfs would starvewithout the land.The modern world would bedominated not by empires,Selling Indian opium for Chinese teawhen the Northerner Abraham Lincolnbecame president.But to start with,it went badly for him.Lincoln had no choice but to declarewar on the South to defend the union.The soldiers waiting to attackSaigo's samurai hated whatthey were about to do.And he'd gone almost everywheretrying to buy one -The people that he had just defeated.And the later Africa of failed statescan be traced back, literally,Halfway down the hill,Saigo was shot in the right hip.of £2 billion in today's moneyfor the lost opium,Lincoln believedthat slavery was wrong,worked 12-hour daysin vast factories.I can see one means at leastof keeping the Ravensdale estatein the family.11 Southern states decidedto break away from the unionAnd they weren't that gullible,they weren't going to fall for that.but frantic competition, drivenby intoxicating industrial power,Who needed mediaevalwarriors any more?now linked together by railroads,stormed ahead -you sockdologizing old man-trap!with just two citieswith more than 50,000 peopleIt was like a syringe full of poisonbeing squirted halfwayacross a continent.Zimmermann wanted to pour oilon the fire.He was so desperate to get backto Russia and try to seize powerOne man knelt to him,and Lincoln said,"No, no, you only kneel to your God."just as it was startingall over again.it turned out the serfswould be free in name,The count must betrying to swindle them.And so Zimmermannorganised a sealed trainSullen, silent, staring back fromwindows and the tops of buildings.could come to get what they wanted,which was here,But Tolstoy was a dedicated,even reckless reformer.This was now undoubtedly a world war.A tragic symbol of the old Japan,of honour and self-sacrifice.Some of the worst thingsthat happened in modern Africa,The samurai soul that was still thereit all came as a bit of a surprise.And once the Americans reachedEurope, Germany couldn't win.but soon the United States, GermanyThe tide of war turnedin the North's favour.And Lincoln's group were expectingshouts of abuse, possibly even shots.Well, I know enoughto turn you inside out,It was incredible that the Germanswere up to something like this.But in 1917,Germany's new Foreign SecretaryAfrican chiefs had no ideathey were signing away their landThe guilt so tore him apartthat he came to believe thatnot only he had to change,What was newabout the Industrial RevolutionDanke sehr, mein Herr.
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