Why did Europe/the west start the Industrial Revolution while the rest of the world was still full of backwards retards?
inb4 East Asia did more
>>70902351
Coal and strong navies.
>>70902491
>there's no coal in China
>China didn't have navies
>>70902720
>China
>no navy
>>70902720
China didn't give a shit about anything that wasn't China and did in fact have a shit navy.
>>70902720
Shit why aren't we using more coal?
>>70903256
Current mining/usage levels, I imagine.
That and it's not exactly good for the atmosphere.
>>70902351
No need. Plentiful manpower in India and China meant that industrializing would've been more costly than maintaining a manual labour-based society.
>>70902351
Belgium should be red, france should be yella
>>70903405
Who cares? It's already polluted with chinks and Indians anyway
>>70902351
See
>>70903518
For the real response. For the meme response : it's because
WE
>>70902782
The treasure ships weren't even seaworthy, and it's disputed whether they were even this big. Hardly a navy.
>>70903774
WUZ
>>70902351
Because it started in the United Kingdom
>>70903937
smart?
>>70903649
Adding to the problem won't help it. I quite enjoy not breathing Beijing tier smog.
>>70904064
I don't get how anyone can say Euros weren't the smartest
I mean seriously look at the top physicists
>>70904159
Or Mathematicians
>>70903937
WET MAIDS N SHIET
>>70904159
>>70904187
Look at the ones from today.
This is wewuz-ery.
>>70904596
STEM publications per capita today
>>70902351
Because the UK had just enough market freedom to encourage private investment, not too much government regulation, plenty of cheap and readily available coal and a far reaching global export market also a top notch navy to keep it secure. Obviously the boom in scientific achievements played a big role too
>rest of the world was still full of backwards retards?
never change /pol/
>>70902351
Slavery.
Without slavery you end up developing technology to cut labor costs or increase production.
The ancient greeks had everything to build practical steam engines long before Jesus came around. They didn't, because it was easier to throw some more slaves at the problem.
>>70905420
>implying they aren't still mostly full of backwards retards
>>70905423
>The ancient greeks had everything to build practical steam engines
but they had no concept of classical mechanics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_impetus
>>70905508
>scientific research is an accurate measure of global average intelligence
backwards retards exist in all countries in all eras. The reason why the industrial revolution occurred in Europe and not elsewhere has more to do with national policy not intelligence. 95% of Europeans were still retarded povos at the time of the industrial revolution
This will happen if Anglo's are kept away from the lesser races for long enough.
>>70906006
What magical Anglo policy resulted in them inventing everything?
>>70906272
allowing the free market to take care of everything
>>70905561
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
they did actually...800 years prior to islam also
>>70906272
don't forget, we invented HTTP too
Read this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guns-Germs-Steel-history-everybody/dp/0099302780
>>70906960
>pop science
>never even published in an academic journal
>jewish
kek
>>70907020
also
>animals can't be bred to be domesticated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jFGNQScRNY
kek
>>70907067
also Jared Diamond literally thanks Papua New Guineans are the "master race (behind jews of course)
>>70904064
>africa
kek
>>70906960
He could only be more Jewish if he was called Shlomo Poopdiamond
>>70902351
that is not where the moscow is
>>70904159
>Nicolas Copernicus - Polish Monk
Triggered.
>>70902782
china - did fuck all with it.
Discovered parts of Africa and Asia.
SHUT IT DOWN IT WILL BREAK OUR HEADS
>>70907020
He studied fucking insects and birds and lost his 4chan-Jewishness in PNG
>>70907067
Why don't I see people out walking their foxes in London?
Also ... chestnut? Water buffalo?
>>70907119
What the fuck are you talking about?
>>70907255
Why is this guy being Jewish a problem?
>>70907746
>>70907746
this
he was australian
>>70907859
>Why don't I see people out walking their foxes in London?
furfags will rape it
>>70907951
top kek, friend
>>70907951
>>70902351
Well for south-eastern europe i can give you an answer:
>We were constantly being raided by the ottoman turks so we were constantly in a state of war so we didn't have time to industrialize.
>We were basically keeping the rest of europe safe.
>Best place to see the difference is in romania; green part is poor as fuck because of the constant wars and raids and transylvania is pretty much untouched because of the terrain and somewhat superior habsburg military.
Also: if the habsburgs weren't such assholes to attack the rest of romania for the lulz, we wouldn't have been so dirt poor now. But just by a little bit.
>>70902399
The Song dynasty came pretty close to developing something like the industrial revolution, and iirc the early Ming weren't far from developing this either. It's just that they kept fucking with themselves by having a monolithic 1 dynasty state where internal politics and external threats kept keeping the innovators down. China itself was regarded as some sort of model state by the late absolutionists, but it is also a bit of a warning to how hard the state can fuck up when giving in to their own power and politics.
Post your face when you realize that Lelgium was the first country on the continent to industrialize
>>70907119
A geographical ecological biological anthropology professor and ornithologist was giving a lecture on all of world history,known large and complicated subject.
"Before the, um, lecture begins,you must all,um, get on your hind legs and,um, worship geography as the greatest force on history the world has ever known,even greater than culture or,um, genetics!"
At this moment a brave young field anthropologist who had surveyed over 1500 traditional and indigenous people stood up and held up a box of precious cargo.
"how long have people been living in cities,egghead?"
The polite professor shuffled about slightly Bostonically and reasonably replied "People,um,lived as hunter-gatherers all over the world until yesterday"
"Wrong. it's been 12,000 years since civilization started,if it had only started yesterday, as you claim, then my shipments of cargo from the amazon wouldn't have arrived,via Amazon yet"
The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his gall bladder and his pulitzer prize. He walked calmly out of the room crying those chimpanzee tears.There is no doubt that at this point our professor wished he had pulled himself up from a hunter gatherer lifestyle instead of merely having the good luck to be born in a western nation. He wished so much that he had a gun to shoot himself from embarrassment, but he had not yet forged one by hand out of steel!
The students all subscribed to National Geographic and went home in pairs that day,and figured out whether sex was fun,a question that had long baffled anthropology majors.
A Zebra called "Mercator projection" walked onto the quad and plowed it in the shape of the American flag.
The professor quit his job voluntarily because he got a book and television deal the next day but sadly died of the western plague of smallpox and his society collapsed for all eternity.
>Why did the Industrial Revolution start in Great Britain?
ftfy Amerifriend.
It's probably because at the time, everywhere else in the world was an uncivilised wasteland or run by socialists.
>>70902720
The uk had lots of rivers/canals that served as easy acces to coal. China didn't so they never were able to easily transport it. But that's only one major reason
>>70904773
quality > quantity
>>70902351
Probably the simplest explanation would be they had access to more resources and thus more power.
>>70907067
BUT MY PITBULL DINDU NUFFINS
