Mechanized how though? I don’t think a few cases of water or wind mills turning things meaningfully moves the needle. And it’s definitely not “a formalized pro

Mechanized how though? I don’t think a few cases of water or wind mills turning things meaningfully moves the needle. And it’s definitely not “a formalized process” because those existed long before the qualitative change that came with the Industrial Revolution, which was significant energy expansion into basically every industry, especially transportation. Moving away from depending on animals to move goods outside of waterways dramatically shifted the entire world because it completely changed what was viable (cities of any significant size off of water ways).