The irony is that the same underlying process of technical and scientific innovation enabled both the Peruvian slaves traders as well as the Haber-Bosch process

The irony is that the same underlying process of technical and scientific innovation enabled both the Peruvian slaves traders as well as the Haber-Bosch process. But I find it strange that we only call one "European", when in fact both were. The technium giveth and the technium taketh away.