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by peterburkimsher 3094 days ago
What have the Romans ever done for us?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-fRo5-p9hE

http://peterburk.github.io/pliny/ChaptersHtml/0/1.%20PlinyPe...
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adrianN 3094 days ago
There is a lot of discussion online why the Romans didn't have an industrial revolution. One argument I heard was that they relied too much on slave labor and improvements in productivity weren't really sought after. See for example here

https://medium.com/@MarkKoyama/could-rome-have-had-an-indust...

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