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by grawprog 2354 days ago
Well, I haven't really studied this either, as the other commenter pointed out, without really adding anything helpful, but this link

https://www.historycrunch.com/causes-of-the-industrial-revol...

Has some history of the causes and it seems that the fall of mercantilism happening around the same time as the rise of capitalism, during a period of European imperialism, just after the agricultural revolution had a lot to do with it.