The closest I imagine it could have gotten is a mechanistic revolution, but who knows in the long haul. In the shorter term, there was no substrate in population, raw materials, technical skills, etc. It's easy to forget how much was developed during the Middle Ages.
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It's a stretch, for sure, but the one thing I would say they DID have was a population base. It's not just Greeks who count in this case, but the Egyptians, Syrians, Anatolians they ruled over.
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This is taking the long-term perspective, allowing a good half-millennium or so for population growth.
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