China was well on its way to an industrial revolution by the mid-1200s.Imagine that this revolution did not happen
But what if that had not happened? How might the world be different today if China had stayed on its course of industrial and technological growth? How might our technological landscape be different today? Would some of the technologies that were developed in Europe and America in the 1800s have arrived earlier? How might a Medieval industrial China have affected technological development in other parts of the world--Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas--between 1300 and 1900. Would our ‘western’ culture have become more ‘eastern’?
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