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Within less than two years of the Treaty of Nanking, predicted the free-trade Friend of China, ‘the Tartar of Central Asia will trim his beard with Sheffield scissors, and every spinster in Peking must have a Coventry ribbon’.35
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"The End of the Past is an exploration of the economy of Ancient Rome and Koyama uses it to ask a favourite question: why did the industrial revolution happen when it did? Specifically ... why didn’t it happen much earlier, in Rome?" @matthewclifford 🚀https://t.co/F5R7Sp9cgj
Anna Gát 🧭x.comWhy did this happen? The simple explanation is the Mongol conquest. However, China recovered from that disaster under the Ming by most measures, and the institutions created under the Song were still extant when the Mongols were expelled in 1368.