I'd think how much more drastically gunpowder changed Europe than China might be a good one
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Replying to @MrAlAnderson
good call--but this isn't due to something in China's culture...right?
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Replying to @380kmh
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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Replying to @MrAlAnderson @380kmh
& 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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Replying to @MrAlAnderson
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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Replying to @380kmh @MrAlAnderson
and even then, I'm saying it tentatively--because maybe it WAS a cultural thing. But I think you already got the cause...
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Replying to @380kmh @MrAlAnderson
...which is that China was a (mostly) stable, unified, empire--whereas Europe was in the middle of cultural/political turmoil
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Replying to @380kmh @MrAlAnderson
man it really is amazing the kind of development you can get from an anarchic mass of fairly small states
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Replying to @380kmh
not too small though, and not too anarchic, plus accumulation by a "middle" class is very helpful
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Replying to @MrAlAnderson
a middle class is a prerequisite; they're the ones who are doing the trading
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Mainly I'm thinking of Renaissance Italy and the city states of Classical Greece
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Replying to @380kmh
well yeah, little trading cities do a lot. Rome was one of those once.
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