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>How does military might factor in? I don't think that sentence is grammatically correct. The study does a poor job of explaining why there are so many roads
by ramblerouser 8y ago
>How does military might factor in?
I don't think that sentence is grammatically correct.
The study does a poor job of explaining why there are so many roads in Turkey and most of the middle east, and yet such little development there. Such a stark contrast between western Europe and the Islamic world casts doubt on the idea that the roads played the dominant economic factor over the past two millennia.
- scatters 8y ago"military might" is a noun phrase (adjective + noun), "factor in" is a verb phrase (verb + preposition). Hopefully this helps your parse.
- jobigoud 8y agoNot a native speaker but shouln't it be "how might the military factor in"?
- netsharc 8y agoHere "might" is a noun meaning "strength", not the verb https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/might https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/might It can even be replaced 1:1 with strength, so "How does military strength factor in?"
- toyg 8y agoDifferences weren't that stark before the industrial revolution, a boat that the Islamic world clearly missed for a number of reasons. The other big factor is Suez. The channel basically killed Euro-Asian land routes that had been maintained for thousands of years.
- dredmorbius 8y ago"Military might" == "military strength". Rewritten: how might one consider the strength of armies?
- megaman22 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258) The impact of the Mongol conquest almost cannot be overstated.