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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?

Also they didn't have good enough metallurgy to do a proper industrialisation

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.

and it could spur more interest in making shit

Theoretically yes

But you could get a steam engine

Or you could get 10 more slaves

And guarantee a profit

steam engines dont revolt

And once you have the steam engine you've developed its limited in use