Why didn't rome industrialize?

Why didn't rome industrialize?

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Well, they never really got good enough with steam enginers to conceive using them to move vast ammounts of people and resources, they had a naval empire for the most part.

Im sure if you gave them a printed press and some stability you would have it in 100-200 years time. And this speed/efficiency somewhat precludes the huge logistics that industrialization entails.

because jews

niggers and jews

>he thinks the Roman empire stopped existing

FFS, are you serious?

Next you will be asking why didnt cro-magnon man invent the telegraph

Christianity hates progress

stop being christian

well they where too busy fighting german niggers to do anything else really

The printing press was invented in the holy roman empire.

They had slaves to do the manual labor. Same reason britain started industrialising when they abolished slavery.

>start being muslim

Didnt they have slaves?

Why industrialize or develope tech for it when you can use slaves?

Rome is the reason of lack of technological progress desu

Why were the Neanderthals unable to accomplish the first Trans continental flights?

I would say any form of religion halts progress to some degree due to being a traditional thing rather than a progressive thing.

It feels hard to think that some german barbarian invented the printing press a 1000 years after the glory of rome, in a much smaller and poorer country.

I never was

ummm, try again sweetie

They did using water power.

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based

Slaves

Holy shit is this true? Then how come northern USA became industrialized before the american civil war?

the amount of people who could read and write in antiquity was far greater though. Even educated slaves were everywhere and they where a symbol of status. They did not need the printing press.

Varg doesn't like Islam.

I can sort of answer this realisticly due to a rather good (but hard going) book on the subject "science education in the early Roman Empire" by Richard Carrier.

Education above the very basic level was devoted almost 100% to turning out polished speakers and politicians/lawyers.

Nearly all exposure to what wed call STEM was incidental.

With the wealthy class being educated away from STEM and the lower classes not having any rewards or use for it (slaves etc) the empire was effectively stagnant.

because at the hight of slavery in amurica less than 2% of people had slaves or something

Because the North didn't have as many slaves before Lincoln got it, there's a reason the North stayed in the Union.

The Agricultural economy of the south depended on slave labour.

Also German immigrants in the north really helped.

also ancient slaves could be and were educated. try doing that with niggnogs

This is correct.

Because Rome's plutocrats found war slaves much cheaper than robots.

1) Cheap labour
2) Math and science not developed enough (requires a lot of precision in materials and engineering, not just meme steam engines)
3) Profit motive didn't operate consistently enough in some enterprises
4) Standard of living was high without industrialization for the upper classes
5) Mediterraneans aren't as autistic
6) Coal deposits mainly in Britain etc.
7) Wood was a good fuel source at the time, less incentive to explore coal, and heating less important in warm countries

>progress is good

enjoy being wiped out by AI within 30 years

kek

Really this. The Romans are referred to as an ancient civilization for a reason. Even the game Civ V will give you a good perspective of prerequisites needed before Industrialization can occur.

I'm going to be dead in 30 years so I don't care

>Math and science not developed enough (requires a lot of precision in materials and engineering, not just meme steam engines)

This desu

Even without other factors, they couldnt have industrialized because of this. The metalurgy wasnt there and it would have had required thousands of years to get there

(((They're))) working on it.

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Because we outbred/ate them.
>Mfw we are the shitskin usurpers of superior neanderthal genetics.

Learn from history boyos.

Which was not the Roman empire, you faggot pedant.

If Rome was so ancient how come the upper class had living stantards equal to late 18th-century europe?

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Slaves are cheaper than machines.