182 The history of the European and American powers
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When it was time for dinner, the kitten Candy crowed one after another, and the sound became louder and louder, but its owners turned a deaf ear. The two sisters sat intimately on the sofa, their heads touched, read a very thick letter together, and discussed softly:
"Let's write together, and give me a pen name soon."
"You can call it whatever you want, I can't figure it out!"
"I think Mr. Shandong's name is very good, whenever he is mentioned, he must be called Mr., otherwise he will be called by name directly, Shandong, it doesn't sound like words."
Zhihuan snorted and laughed:
"There is such a reason, even if you want to scold him, you have to scold Mr. Shandong, not Shandong! There's always a little bit of respect in it. ”
The girl clapped her hands happily:
"That's right, that's what I mean, or I'll call him Mr. Shanxi."
Zhihuan put a finger on her head:
"You save it, you are not from Shanxi, and your name is so symmetrical, you are really embarrassed?"
The girl frowned again and pondered for a moment:
"How about calling Mr. Shanghai?"
Zhihuan sneered and laughed:
"Millions of people in Shanghai are in a hurry with you!"
The kitten candy barked for a while, and when she saw that the owners ignored it, she got up in a hurry, and jumped directly on the girl's knees.
The girl was startled again, but giggled:
"I've decided, I'll call it Lazy Cat Candy!"
Zhihuan pointed his finger at her head again:
"What a weird name."
Teenage lazy cat candy pouts unconvinced:
"Don't talk about me, in fact, your name is not very good, and you will always be misunderstood as a man."
Zhihuan clapped his hands:
"That's what I mean, be a man, proud of the world!"
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Early summer in May. Shanghai has been blessed with fine weather, and the wave of strikes has passed. All kinds of shops have reopened their doors with great promotions to connect with customers.
Dozens of movie theaters have issued discounted advertisements, and some old films have been re-played, such as "Baolian Lantern", "Journey to the West", and "The Legend of Mr. Shandong".
Haven't you seen it all? How to put it again? But it turned out that these films were introduced to theaters in the United States, and they were still very popular. When it comes to Chinese spells and chivalry, the American audience is very excited.
Shanghai's film critics are also getting excited. Wrote a large number of articles that instigated trouble.
Hurry up and write a movie script. Earn Americans' money! 》
"Hurry up and make martial arts movies and make Americans' money!" 》
"Chinese chivalry is very popular, and a large number of martial arts talents rush to Hollywood to pan for gold!" 》
The American Continent. Gold Everywhere
The European and American powers blasted open the door of China with the two opium wars, and the sober Chinese people initially put forward slogans such as "middle school is the body, Western learning is the use" and "the skills of the master are used to control the country".
Scholars from Europe and the United States also translated a large number of Western science and technology books, and Chinese and Western cultures began to gradually collide and merge. However, this is not enough.
Zhang Meixi plans to build a machinery industrial base in Pudong. And it has already begun to publicize in Europe and the United States, recruiting various factory owners. Culturally specifically. She hoped that the people of the country would have a better understanding of the situation of the great powers, and know themselves and their opponents to win all battles.
Therefore, I compiled a large number of information on the current status of industrial technology in Europe and the United States, contacted Mr. Zhihuan, and asked him to combine the history and current situation of Europe and the United States. Write some introductory essays.
This time she was in the right place.
Newspaper writer Zhihuan began to serialize in newspapers:
The Great Powers Today
The great geographical discoveries around 1500 A.D. opened the curtain of history of dialogue and competition between different countries. The path of development of the great powers has global coordinates.
Over the past 500 years, it has been on the big stage of human modernization. Nine world powers emerged one after another, and they were Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, and the United States.
Spain and Portugal gradually rose to prominence as the first two powerful states because they opened the Age of Discovery, which sailed to the states of the world to loot and trade.
However, after becoming stronger, they gradually declined because they only valued trade and luxury pleasures, and did not pay attention to the use of capital in industry and commerce.
The Netherlands is a very business-oriented country, and in the 17th century, it was the economic center and the richest region in the world. With a population of only 1.5 million, the Netherlands extended its influence to almost every corner of the earth, and was called the "No. 1 maritime power" by thinkers at that time.
At the end of the 17th century, the Netherlands slowed down and gradually lost its great power to dominate the world, but it is still one of the richest countries in the world today.
Britain was the first country to enter the modern world, and in the 18th and 19th centuries, it was a world leader.
The proud British describe their country as "an empire on which the sun never sets", because at the end of the 19th century, its colonies spread across all continental plates in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania, with a total area of 9.3 million square kilometers and more than 300 million people in the world.
Two hundred years ago, when the 18th century came, China's Kangxi Emperor was using his martial arts to open up the glory of a new dynasty and began to take an interest in the far West. At this time, Britain was giving birth to a new mode of production in human history, which later generations called the "Industrial Revolution".
Continued overseas expansion and colonial trade drove demand for goods. Scientific awareness and market awareness have raised the general level of understanding among the British.
Thanks to various synergies, Britain became the first industrialized country in the world. He pioneered the far-reaching liberal economic model and built an "empire on which the sun never sets" across the globe. From the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century, it led the development of the world.
By the mid-19th century, the idyllic atmosphere of England's past was gone, and a hectic world emerged. Grey factories have been built in the countryside, towering chimneys have been erected in the towns, the roar of machines echoes in the factories, and the light of molten iron flashes in front of the blast furnaces. By 1850, more than 60% of Britain's urban population had lived. Iron production exceeds the combined iron production of all countries in the world, coal accounts for two-thirds of the world's total production, and cotton cloth accounts for more than half of the world's total.
Trains and steamboats began to replace horse-drawn carriages and sailboats. In 1814, the world's first steam locomotive was born in England. In 1830, steam locomotives began running on the world's first operational railway. By 1851, Britain had 22 railway networks with a total length of about 13,000 kilometers.
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France, Germany, Japan, Russia, USA.
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The above illustrative text is taken from the documentary "The Rise of Great Powers".
…… (To be continued.) )
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