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I know right I'm hamming it up a bit to try and draw out a convincing counterargument
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honestly the big thing is that tech comes from social processes, and sometimes tech that drastically changes one society simply
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doesn't change another society that much
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do you have a good example of this off the top of your head?
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I'd think how much more drastically gunpowder changed Europe than China might be a good one
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good call--but this isn't due to something in China's culture...right?
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it's not that China's culture was "worse" or something, it just didn't have the same potentials as Europe at the time
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& like the change in Europe is wrapped up with religious and state changes + rise of burghers, hard to untangle it all
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sure, I didn't mean to say that China's was worse, only that China's failure to develop firearms wasn't a cultural thing
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