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Somebody
once told me that farming would remold me.
I didn't have farming tools in my shed. He was looking kind of slow
with his rake, shovel, and hoe in his hands with a loaf of some bread.
Well, the deer start running and they don't stop running.
The plants aren't growing and rain's not coming. How am I supposed to stay alive?
Without food we cannot thrive. So much to plant, so much to grow.
We're done hunting because it's slow. I'll raise my own livestock.
Some cows and a sheep flock. Hey now, you're a farmer,
go plow your field, go clear. Hey now, you're a farmer,
put down your bow and spear. And we'll try agriculture.
Our whole lives it will restructure.
Just a small-town trail full of some rocky shale.
It traveled all the way to Arabia. Just a peddler man
thinking that he can. He traveled all the way to Arabia.
He filled his cart with some bamboo. He traded it for some perfume.
For a deal on the Silk Road it was good, so good, so good, so good.
People buying everything we have to sell. Culture diffusing on the Road.
People selling everything from their homelands. Disease spreading on the Road.
Don't stop weavin'. Our products keep on leavin'.
People are buying them. Don't stop.
During the 13th century, in the middle of Asia,
you'd find a Mongol sentry from Poland to Malaysia.
The sprawling Mongol Empire was ruled by a man of brawn.
He's vicious, blood-thirsty, and violent. We know him as Genghis Khan.
Genghis Khan, Genghis Khan, bloody, old, muddy, old horse-rider.
He's Genghis Khan, Genghis Khan, dirty, skirty, hurty Mongol.
Europe needed new land for empires very grand
due to their vanity. They spread Christianity
to each discovered place. Religions, they'd replace.
They'd find new trading routes with shipping ports throughout.
They wanted more wealth. Didn't care about their health.
Men dying on each boat. Their corpses didn't float.
They were gonna find more gold before they're very old.
They faced new horrors because these 'splorers (not explorers) were:
Vasco de Gama, sailed to South Africa,
sent by Portugal, in a little sailing scull.
Columbus from Spain discovered fresh terrain.
The Americas were still new in 14, 14, 1492.
Mines of Potosi. What a horrible place.
Mines of Potosi. Silver's the newest craze.
You'll probably die in your first few days.
It's a... *coughing fit* It's a heinous pain in the ***.
Mines of Potosi.
Well, you took me from my family and you bet I miss them.
I tell you all my problems, but you just dismiss them.
You beat me til I'm black (awkward wink). Now I want to go back.
Before the nighttime falls I'll be giving it my bestest,
and nothing's gonna stop you but divine intervention. So I'll harvest sugar.
It's that or be your ***. So I won't rebel,
no more, no more, please don't resell,
I'm yours.
I dropped my rake and shovel, picked up some gas and oil,
but I have nothing to show. What's standing in my way?
We're mining plenty of tin, shipping on a steam engine,
picking with a cotton gin. What's standing in my way?
Your econ was growing. Agriculture, you're forgoing.
Progress, you're not slowing. Where is all the money flowing?
Hey, I just found this new energy.
Here's some resources. Industrialize me.
It's hard to progress and make the world see
that you're a player. Industrialize me.
Hey, I just found this new energy.
Here's some resources. Industrialize me.
And all the countries want to pay me.
Here's some resources. Industrialize me.