This week we are taking a look at the latest winner of the ACOUP Senate poll, which posed the question “Why didn’t the Roman Empire have an industrial revolution?” To answer that,…
i would encourage you to actually engage with the article, which is actually quite interesting, instead of flippantly dismissing it in a way that leaves no avenue for discussion at all.
I am not dismissing the article, but the question in the title is not well conceived. I provided strong reasoning for that as well. Why call it flippant?
Sometimes the article content justifies the question. Also industrial revolution that we did end up having, philosophically, and scientifically, is not the only way, manner, and fashion in which it can occur.
That’s kind of a ridiculous question… the industrial revolution took place like a thousand years later
i would encourage you to actually engage with the article, which is actually quite interesting, instead of flippantly dismissing it in a way that leaves no avenue for discussion at all.
I am not dismissing the article, but the question in the title is not well conceived. I provided strong reasoning for that as well. Why call it flippant?
Sometimes the article content justifies the question. Also industrial revolution that we did end up having, philosophically, and scientifically, is not the only way, manner, and fashion in which it can occur.
You are right about that