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You just need 1 or a few to reach "escape velocity", though. Europe was ok-ish until ~1700, then Britain reached the Industrial Revolution, then everybody in a
by oblio 4y ago
You just need 1 or a few to reach "escape velocity", though.
Europe was ok-ish until ~1700, then Britain reached the Industrial Revolution, then everybody in about a 2000km radius suddenly leveled up. Kind of funny how geography and culture work.
- brnt 4y agoAh, the Anglo-centric (what's centrism taken to its extreme BTW?) view. As always, utterly divorced from actual facts on the ground on the Continent.
- oblio 4y agoI'm not from an English speaking country and I'm actually from the "Continent".
- cornerfold 4y agoyes, Europe had multiple colonies all over the world to extract raw material. Very easy to do that when you have a strong army. A monopoly on violence lead to that "development".
- rayiner 4y ago> Very easy to do that when you have a strong army If it was so easy everyone would do it. It’s not like India wasn’t ruled by a series of colonizers long before the British.
- Viliam1234 4y agoBut how do you get the strong army without being developed first? (I agree that once you already have a strong army, you can leverage it to get even more advantages.)
- oblio 4y agoChicken and egg. The "monopoly on violence" requires technological "development".