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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But even if an ancient IR was just that long revolution on a compressed timeline, the Hellenistic world is the place it would have occurred.
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Replying to @adlows @LibertyFarmNH
Maybe...maybe They had some ideas and craftsmanship (Antikytheros mechanism, etc.), but I just don't see the population base or the economics to do much more with it
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Replying to @MorlockP @LibertyFarmNH
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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So 200 or 500 AD or so? Maybe. Still not convinced. /shrug
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