From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
    gggg gggg wrote:   
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   Technologically? Yes.   
      
   Industrialization began with (now get this) WATER POWER!   
      
   They didn't need steam.   
      
   But socially it was never going to happen for them.   
      
   Industrializations requires a mass market. So it can only apply   
   to products with a lot of demand. And this is exactly where   
   Roman industrialization was applied, specifically in food   
   production... the harvesting of wheat and, more importantly,   
   the water powered flour mills.   
      
   Everyone has to eat, even the poor, so there was a ready market   
   for the finished wheat flour, and industrialization made a lot of   
   sense.   
      
   I think the heavily stratified class system made it virtually   
   impossible to launch a true industrial revolution.   
      
      
      
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