>>15287115they lacked every single required secondary power for steam engines. Starting from precision to metalurgy to the need or even the tolerance for labor saving devices.
>>15287118>Christianity held back technology and lead to the fall of RomeThis was wrong when Gibbons wrote it and has not become any more right in the centuries since.
The opposite is the case. Not to mention that Christianity only became un-persecuted a short while before the fall of Rome.
>>15287119>>15287122yes, here:
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