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The Roman Empire was once the eminent European superpower and by some estimates they were only 300 years away from their own Industrial Revolution. So why didn't the Romans industrialize and could that have saved the empire?

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Further Reading:

“Proto-industrialization and the Economy of the Roman Empire” by K. Dark - https://artefacts.mom.fr/Publi....s/Dark_2001_[Proto_I
"Urbanism and the division of labour in the Roman Empire" by J. W. Hanson - https://royalsocietypublishing.....org/doi/pdf/10.1098