Delvestius
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The time between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries were a time of great technological innovation (I think we still exist in the scientific paradigm as established by the thinkers of this age)but the lack of fast, reliable communication and strict national patronage through universities inevitably made some nations more powerful, though the culmination wouldn't be evident until the Agricultural Revolution in England. I wonder though if a technological edge did exist, besides just having more guns. I'm curious as to the gunpowder-bow-melee-cavalry ratio of Spain, France, England, Prussia, Austria, Ottomans and Russia 1550-1700. I imagine bows being phased out everywhere by the mid-1500s but England, or is even that too late? Which is probably around the time crossbows began being phased out in France and Spain. The mercenary-based forces of Italian city states were very interesting with their mechanics and the had the best cannons and navy backing them up. And let us not forget Sweden and the revolutionary Infantry/Artillery tactics of Gustavus Adolphus.
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