How Christianity Remade the World

Townhall. com ^ | December 1, 2019 | Marvin Olasky

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The Magna Carta is hardly unique.

The rights of Danish kings were bound by nobility right from the beginning, Polish kings were elected by the nobility, then there is the Pacta conventa between the Hungarian royalty and the Croatian nobility, etc.

The Magna Carta sounds unique because you may not have heard of the others

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Then the entire banking system was created by Italians.

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That is getting pretty close to the truth.
The Catholic Church once controlled the spice and drug trade... wars were fought over opiates. Why do you think there was a commonality between the mafia and the church wiping it’s hands of the criminal activities?

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“The Magna Carta is hardly unique.” that is somewhat true, however the brits took it as their first building bock and kept on going, building and adding to it eating into patent law.
Thus the inventions and patents.

[Cronos]

hmm... many of the industrial era patents are also from northern france, the lowland countries and western Germany.

And the patent process dates to 15th century Florence.

The British were key, no doubt, but the entire innovative age from the late 1700s to early 1900s was not an exclusive British process

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“The Catholic Church once controlled the spice and drug trade” — err.. that’s historically laughably false.

The spice trade was, under Roman times, controlled by Chola, Yemeni and Sassanid merchants.

In the Middle Ages it was controlled by the Eastern Roman Empire, Sassanids, then the Arabs along with various Indic powers.

From 1453 it was controlled (and closed off) by the Ottomans

From 1497 (rather later) until 1600 it was dominated by the portuguese. Then came the Dutch and finally, from 1800 onwards the BRitish.

At no point was “the Catholic church once controlled the spice trade”

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And even more so the drug trade — that drug trade was largely the Brits — haven’t you heard of the Opium wars when a drug cartel (the British Empire) fought a war with China to force the Chinese to let them supply opoids to the Chinese?

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In England, grants in the form of letters patent were issued by the sovereign to inventors who petitioned and were approved: a grant of 1331 to John Kempe and his Company is the earliest authenticated instance of a royal grant made with the avowed purpose of instructing the English in a new industry.[4][5] These letters patent provided the recipient with a monopoly to produce particular goods or provide particular services. Another early example of such letters patent was a grant by Henry VI in 1449 to John of Utynam, a Flemish man, for a twenty-year monopoly for his invention.[5]

The first Italian patent was awarded by the Republic of Florence in 1421.[6][7] The Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi received a three-year patent for a barge with hoisting gear, that carried marble along the Arno River in 1421.