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So I'm thinking of doing a Roman TL and I was thinking what it would take to kick-start a Roman industrial revolution. I know that the whole monolithic empire thing is counter-commercial/industrial. We saw this with Rome and China who both had the manpower and indeed the technology to be industrialised powers yet did not.
So this is not a WI but a HOW? How could it happen? Or is this completely ASB?