The fact is that arabs failed, persians failed, and turks failed, in sequence, under islam, despite being at the nexus of world trade. Yet chinese and europeans when insulated from the middle east, built advanced civilizations. In fact, the only reason the chinese didn’t win …
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-26 23:37:30 UTC
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@roytapel @JohnMarkSays The question isn’t whether you seek rents on trade, consume accumulated genetic, cultural, and institutional capital – which by 1200 they reversed into mandatory ignorance – but whether you innovate, increase production, and velocity. How few years did it take europe each time?
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@roytapel @JohnMarkSays The question isn’t whether you seek rents on trade, consume accumulated genetic, cultural, and institutional capital – which by 1200 they reversed into mandatory ignorance – but whether you innovate, increase production, and velocity. How few years did it take europe each time?
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1177366199585378305
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