It seems obvious to me Hellenistic Greek civilization underwent something of a revolution in technology and production. What was it missing so that it isn't the first industrial revolution? Ocean trade? Key social technologies? Or perhaps it was the first one, it just failed.
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Replying to @SamoBurja
Carl Sagan places the blame in the decline of production of science & machanical arts towards the use of slaves. Once Greece was powerful & prosperous enough there were enough slaves to displace much manual labor, but to Sagan, developing Science and Technology is a manual labor
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Replying to @DanielleFong @SamoBurja
fwiw I tend to agree. And the development of industrialization did, of course, lag far behind in sdtates reliant on slaves (e.g. Southern states) or serfs (e.g. Russia) though there are of course counterexamples!
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