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Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside
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The Ancient Greeks and the Romans, Why Did They Not Industrialize?
The Roman Empire in the 2nd century AD was an incredibly economically advanced society. But there does also seem to be on the part of the Roman elites, a nervousness about allowing technology to go too far. There is a strain of Ludditeism in the classical world that makes them suspicious of anything that might lead to labor-saving devices.
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