>Rome had some pretty advanced technology.   
      
   It was limited in energy conversion to the water wheel for grinding.   
   architecture and roads were its biggest technology.   
   >It wasn't   
   >about technology, the Industrial Revolution, it was   
   >about the socio-economic landscape. There's no point   
   >in mass producing product for people who can't buy   
   >them.   
      
   The economics evoked had no substantive implication until the modern nation   
   state and big capitalism. >   
      
   In modern terms, it had an mpire as a market but aside from such things as   
   fish paste it had nothing that was not produced locally in the nations of   
   the empire.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)