The Song Dynasty came so close...gunpowder, movable type, huge iron and coal industries, even paper money & joint stock companies...
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Could they build clockwork?
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Not sure. Water clocks, maybe.
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Broke:China almost achieved industrialization 800 years early, but an accident of history prevented them Woke:the Mongols knew, saved us all
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