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The Ancient Greeks and the Romans, Why Did They Not Industrialize?
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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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