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There were multiple examples of basic steam engines from the Roman Empire. More often than not they were for nothing more than a party trick. If someone decided to put that engine on a wheel or a mill, how would Rome change?
Rome died because of faggots
The industrial revolution would happen obv
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Rome wouldve fallen even faster
I don't think their engines were strong enough for anything major
Wouldn't because slavery prevented the necessary economic pressures that lead to industrialisation
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Joe, they would've steamrolled right through Scotland.
Large plantations lead to significant stakeholders in cheap human labour not expensive high investment labour saving devices.
Same as the American south
The engine that the Romans would have wouldn't be strong enough for anything drastic
what about in the roman cities?
they could have devolped better metallurgy
The urban patricians had plantations
They could have
But didn't
Possibly
the demand created by a steam engine would have driven better metalurgy
Not really
Steam locomotives+road
farming advances would be necessary?
It requires a significant investment from the medium to large stakeholders to do industrialisation, you could still have artisanal high quality metallurgy, they did in the high medeival ages
@Asdrubal =choo choo train
Sure, but the initial investment would never be fielded
Needs to be profitable every step of the way or for someone with enough power to force it through to a seen profitable end
@Joe The Communist yes, train go choo choo
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Rome didn't have a seen profitable end and slavery prevented it being profitable short term
but a steam engine would have made up some of the work
Idk it would change that much.
"Why didnt they put slaves in the factories?" They did lmao
Industrial revolution was a lot more things than steam machines.