<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 May 2018 at 02:40, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_-2127561485214391468WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <br></p><div><div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">>…The Roman Empire was involved in even more wars than the British were, so why didn't the industrial revolution happen then? John K Clark<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.5pt"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.5pt">It did. The ancient Romans developed plenty of war stuff way advanced for its time, chariots, armor, iron works, all kindsa stuff, and it came out of the necessities of war.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.5pt"><br></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Advanced technology is not the industrial revolution - the industrial revolution was the harnessing of machine power to production. Towards the end of the Roman Empire they had a factory for making armour which used a production line to manufacture, which is a lot of the way towards the industrial revolution, but as far as I'm aware there's only a single example of this (it used water flowing down a hill for power) and it's very late in the Imperial Period (discounting the Eastern Empire).<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Dwayne<br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"> <a href="mailto:ddraig@pobox.com" target="_blank">ddraig@pobox.com</a> <a href="http://irc.bluesphereweb.com" target="_blank">irc.bluesphereweb.com</a> #dna<br> ...r.e.t.u.r.n....t.o....t.h.e....s.o.u.r.c.e...<br> <a href="http://fav.me/dqkgpd" target="_blank">http://fav.me/dqkgpd</a><a href="http://tinyurl.com/he-is-right-you-know-jpg" target="_blank"></a><br>our aim is wakefulness, our enemy is dreamless sleep</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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