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Kind of the opposite of what you're asking for, but you might enjoy an earnest exploration of why it didn't happen: https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-wh
by mdpye 3y ago
Kind of the opposite of what you're asking for, but you might enjoy an earnest exploration of why it didn't happen: https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-industrial-revolution/ https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...
- ideamotor 3y agoCool
- Eumenes 3y agoOne important thing that I feel this article left out was how technological innovation was driven by military endeavors. From antiquity to Europe getting comfortable with gun powder was a very long time. Prior to gun powder, the focus was on siege warfare - how to destroy walled defenses in a timely fashion before supply chains before untenable. With the rise of gunpowder, innovation followed. Alot of industrial success came out of America, and with a giant ocean between itself and any potential invaders, they were able to focus that innovation for industry as opposed to militarily.
- bombolo 3y agoYou do realise that "america" didn't happen for more than a thousand of years since the roman empire right?
- Eumenes 3y agoThe Byzantine empire fell in 1453 and you can argue that the Vatican maintained some institutional power of western Europe through the middle ages
- thom 3y agoThat isn’t left out - everything rested on the three centuries European countries had spent perfecting the cannon.
- nunuvit 3y agoTold in Stone has a good video series on this too. https://youtu.be/5uqPlOAH85o https://youtu.be/5uqPlOAH85o