Changes In The Victorian Age

The changes in the Victorian Age, approximately 69 years long, contributed more to the advancement of the world than the other two thousand years of it’s existence. It was a time of expansion, reform, and technological advancement. Thus mark twain was essentially correct in saying that “British history is two thousand years old, and yet in a good many ways the world has moved farther ahead since the queen was born than it moved in …

…and goods was made easier by steamships and railways, also decreasing their costs. Antiseptic surgery was introduced by Joseph Lister and Florence Nightingale introduced the first modern nursing school. Many of the changes that took place in Britain during those nearly seven decades greatly affected the rest of the world. New things were introduced into the world, revolutionizing it, moving it one step closer to the modern world today. And in 1897, Mark Twain saw that.