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Why the West Rules -- For Now by Ian Morris
Global cooling in 3800 BCE may have been the birth of the city -- monsoon rains in Mesopotamia dried up, forcing villages to centralize and specialize in orider to survive.
High end vs. low end state (taxes, bureaucracy, standing army)
1279-- Mongols break China just at the point where it was about to break into a an industrial revolution.
China at center + size of pacific discourage discovery of NA. Europe more desperate and closer
Perfection of gun with infantry breaks the nomads of Asian steppe in 17th, allowing old world to break out of old ceiling of social development -- no more raids and sackings.
Roanake founded as a pirates' lair for raiding Spanish gold shipments
P603 - h1n1 killed more people 50m than black death in a century Or aids in last 30 yrs
Global cooling in 3800 BCE may have been the birth of the city -- monsoon rains in Mesopotamia dried up, forcing villages to centralize and specialize in orider to survive.
High end vs. low end state (taxes, bureaucracy, standing army)
1279-- Mongols break China just at the point where it was about to break into a an industrial revolution.
China at center + size of pacific discourage discovery of NA. Europe more desperate and closer
Perfection of gun with infantry breaks the nomads of Asian steppe in 17th, allowing old world to break out of old ceiling of social development -- no more raids and sackings.
Roanake founded as a pirates' lair for raiding Spanish gold shipments
P603 - h1n1 killed more people 50m than black death in a century Or aids in last 30 yrs
posted by Rick and Gary at 9:17 AM
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