Hello and welcome to revolutions.

Episode 11.0,

Welcome to the Martian Revolution.

250 years after the event,

the Martian Revolution remains one of the most formative events in human history.

This is not a novel observation.

Contemporaries quickly realized the momentousness of it all as it was happening.

Historians have only

amplified the conclusion that the Martian Revolution was a big deal, a really big deal.

Every political, social, and economic trend in interplanetary history runs through that chaotic decade.

Its results in outcomes and legacies form the basis of modern human civilization.

Everywhere you look throughout the solar system, the legacy of the Martian Revolution lives on.

Now I acknowledge that there has not exactly been a surfeit of writing about the Martian Revolution.

Over the past two and a half centuries, I don't think a single year has gone by where something hasn't come out about it.

Macro histories, micro histories, biography, screen vids, e-pubs, music, emmerives, whatever.

The Martian Revolution is endlessly fascinating and has endlessly fascinated us.

It certainly has endlessly fascinated me, which is why I'm here to walk you through it,

point by point, day by by day year by year.

From the death of Vernon Bird all the way through to well you know how it ends obviously.

What I want to present here is a detailed overview of what happened and why, who were the most important people and why,

so that when you go forth to go engage with that mountain of material available on the Martian Revolution,

you'll have a very firm grounding on the who, what,

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