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I don't see any reason to believe that industrial revolution wouldn't have been developed independently in multiple places if the movement of culture and ideas

I don't see any reason to believe that industrial revolution wouldn't have been developed independently in multiple places if the movement of culture and ideas around the globe was as slow (or absent) as it was between all the places that independently developed agriculture.

andrewflnr 4y ago
It's kind of like asking why there isn't more than one fire in a pan of gasoline, even though you struck so many sparks over it.