Section Leader: The Age of Industry
The 23rd September 1877, a band of rebel samurai warriors was dug in on a hillside in southern Japan. The samurai had been the elite warrior class for more than 700 years. Now they faced oblivion at the hands of the Japanese army. Japan’s government was modernising fast, rushing to embrace the Industrial Revolution.
The revolution that has shaped today’s world. The samurai would rather die than accept this new way of life. This was a battle between the rural, traditional past and the urban, industrial future.

And in the 19th century, it was raging all around the world. From America.. To Russia. From China.. To Japan.
The old world of kings and landowners was crumbling under the force of the Industrial Revolution. The world was accelerating, and the modern age of superpowers was being born.
But this is not the simple-minded story of progress. It’s also the story of all those who said no.
Welcome to the Age of Industry.