Timeline for What aspect of planet Earth must be changed to prevent the industrial revolution?
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| Apr 13, 2019 at 18:32 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | Since Rome has been brought up so many times as a failure to industrialize, I'd like to point out that they experienced the same phenomenon following the Punic Wars with the establishment of Latifundia style farming. In certainly encourages urbanization, but numerous civilizations urbanized without industrializing (Rome, China, Egypt, Greece, etc). I feel like, most civilizations actually stagnate when they urbanize because it so strongly encourages social disparity, and ideological monopolies. | |
| Apr 12, 2019 at 19:54 | comment | added | pluckedkiwi | Speaking of property rights, there are some theories which claim industrial revolution should be traced to the process of enclosure in England, which sparked development and thus why they lead in industrialization. | |
| Apr 12, 2019 at 18:41 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | Don't forget copyright, patent, and trademark laws. While they stifle certain kinds of innovation, they allow the big leaps that bring technology forward by protecting large capital investments. | |
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| Apr 12, 2019 at 15:24 | history | answered | Peter Knibbe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |