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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/07/2018 01:29 PM, John Clark
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            "<i>We need to stop thinking that Britain invented
              industrialism because<br>
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              had an especially laissez-faire government or because it
              had a<br>
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              entrepreneurial genius or culture,” Satia says.<br>
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              style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">“Let’s
              acknowledge the fact that Britain was involved in a lot of<br>
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              and in order to pursue those wars the government needed
              arms</i>.</span></blockquote>
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          <font size="4">The Roman Empire was involved in even more wars
            than the British were, so why didn't the industrial
            revolution happen then?<br>
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            John K Clark</font><br>
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    Science and technology usually develop together. While the romans
    were amazing at architecture, they weren't much on anything else.
    And they also had slaves. <br>
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    And England also had the religious dissenters who had a pivotal role
    on the industrial revolution, mostly because they weren't permitted
    to do much else. <br>
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    And coal. Never forget coal<br>
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