Excellent essay, anyone familiar with 'technology tree' progression concept in Civilisation games series will immediately see the framework for the argument bei

Excellent essay, anyone familiar with 'technology tree' progression concept in Civilisation games series will immediately see the framework for the argument being made here. Particularly interesting was the competitive pressures of warfare, that medieval China had different enemies to fight - lightly armed, mobile horse archers - meant less pressure to better develop powerful anti-armour weapons such as guns, when a repeating crossbow would do just as well. Lots of food for thought