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ik exactly what caused Rome to fal
And just pushed industrialisation for 20 years
Heron of Alexandria
the steam engine came into be
if that rich dude put the engine on a wheel
Steam engine was never in wide use during Roman Empire
then something would habe happened
IF
Wait, weren't water and air mills used extensively until the Middle Ages?
Putting a steam engine in a mill would not be that huge of a possibility, contrary to wheels.
Rome would need an easier way to create metal parts before steam could be common
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going back to the question, I think Rome would expand until it hit natural borders or some other big empire.
Maybe some other groups would copy the steam engine like China.
Augustus wanted to expand the Empire northwise, civilize the German barbarians, and leave the borders at Rhine and Danube.
But he failed, because that was too much of a task, even for him.
That's a weird question because there was no reason for Rome to use labor-saving devices like the steam engine, because they could just have tons of slaves. And it's not because of the institution of slavery that the steam engine could not be implemented; rather the institution of slavery existed because the technologies needed to use these devices in a productive manner did not exist. The steam engine was reinvented in 1700 AD, but it was not put into use until 100 or 150 or so years after that, at which point technology had advanced sufficiently.
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I think there were various societies that invented them but slavery was cheaper.
Due to the funny trinket thing they never came up with idea to build stuff like steam vehicles like steam ships or steam cars.
@everyone Daily Question 🔖
What ultimately lead to the Roman Empire’s downfall?
Ok
I’m well educated on this
Air conditioning
Everything
A big dude with a big army burnt the city to the ground
I’m REALLY well educated on this
Same as anything, corruption.
That's the main one
I’d say hedonism and laziness.
The empire was fine under Marcus Antoninus.
However, An emperor named Commodus pulled up
Rome fell due to degeneration of the people physically and spiritually, and then a series of restorative movements rose up attempting to stop this each failing to truly redeem the Roman people.
Lazy, ineffective ruler
Who was unpopular
He was assassinated and the throne fell into chaos
In 193; there were 5 claimants for the throne and Septimius Severus ended up claiming it
All was gucci until 211 when he died and Geta took the throne.
His own brother killed him in his mom’s arms.
He was one cruel bastard ngl
So it was the 3rd Century Crisis?
Burned down Alexandria when they dissed him