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Industrial Capitalism and Feudalism
Feudalism was in terminal decline or is in terminal stagnation when the first plague ship showed up in Venice. It had lost, there was no longer, the land was losing its fecundity. Then the black death comes and people start being able to move. And that's that urbanization that sets off a cascade of reactions by different elites which lead to the specific bringing together of innovations at one place then exported elsewhere.