139. Why China Should Have Industrialised First!: The Song Dynasty and the Industrial Revolution (English Vocabulary Lesson)
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What Happened to Song China?
Allowing foreign travelers into the country was incredibly important and beneficial. It allowed China to benefit from the knowledge and expertise of people from other parts of the world. India and the Middle East, for example, provided new science and new technology. In just a few hundred years, Song China's population and wealth grew massively. During the dynasty, businessmen were already experimenting with iron, coal and textile machines 500 years before anyone in Britain.
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