gggg gggg wrote:
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Technologically? Yes.
Industrialization began with (now get this) WATER POWER!
They didn't need steam.
But socially it was never going to happen for them.
Industrializations requires a mass market. So it can only apply
to products with a lot of demand. And this is exactly where
Roman industrialization was applied, specifically in food
production... the harvesting of wheat and, more importantly,
the water powered flour mills.
Everyone has to eat, even the poor, so there was a ready market
for the finished wheat flour, and industrialization made a lot of
sense.
I think the heavily stratified class system made it virtually
impossible to launch a true industrial revolution.
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