Was it a lack of manpower? Was it geographic circumstances? Why couldn’t civilizations like, say, Babylon or Rome have an Industrial Revolution?
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Tech and economics, the ancient world had ways to improve agricultural output but they didn’t, it just didn’t make economic sense. (just like we could build more greenhouses to grow more food)
There was plenty of land and labor, no need to make 10 workers twice as productive when you can buy another 10 slaves for less.
Metallurgy wasnt as good, and the places with coal and iron weren’t the developed regions.
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