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To: C19fan

Maybe if the Roman Empire hadn’t collapsed, industrialization would have happened over 1000 years earlier.

9 posted on 03/26/2018 8:24:12 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)

To: Moonman62

Hard to say given how slave based Rome’s economy was. No incentive for useful technological development.

10 posted on 03/26/2018 8:27:54 AM PDT by C19fan

To: Moonman62

Roman roads lasted hundred of years.

Modern roads last hundreds of minutes before developing pot holes and colapsing.

15 posted on 03/26/2018 9:57:01 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")

To: Moonman62

#9 They would have tv shows and magazines like this....
http://thecia.com.au/star-trek/original-series/213a

19 posted on 03/26/2018 10:53:46 AM PDT by minnesota_bound

To: Moonman62

Electric motors would have been discovered 1,000 years earlier if Islam hadn’t destroyed Hellenic civilization.

25 posted on 03/26/2018 6:28:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)

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