From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
    SolomonW wrote:   
      
   > I do not know if an industrial Revolution would have helped, gunpowder   
   > would have but that was a long way away.   
      
   We had gunpowder in China and as has already been   
   stated it didn't help one iota. There was such a   
   gap between gunpowder & the industrial revolution   
   in Europe that there is no connection, or at least   
   nothing obvious.   
      
      
      
      
      
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