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The (Roman I presume) emperor in the ancient world would have bitten their arm off to get the industrial revolution. Famines were still a regular occurrence, an
by cm2187 2y ago
The (Roman I presume) emperor in the ancient world would have bitten their arm off to get the industrial revolution. Famines were still a regular occurrence, and Rome heavily depended on the food supply from Egypt. Anything that could have increased crop yields (and agriculture was still thought as the most important industry and form of wealth) would have had massive political impact.
- ffgjgf1 2y agoMedieval Europeans were able to increase crop yields (given same conditions) compared to the Romans without an industrial revolution. There was still a lot of space for (in hindsight very simple and obvious compared to steam engines) innovation left.