Dutch-English are effectively the same cause of innovation: longer history of in

Dutch-English are effectively the same cause of innovation: longer history of institutions education and trade, combined with the Germanic Hansa’s reconstruction of sea trade, preparing coastal europe for exploitation of the closing of Constantinople and the unification of the world by the age of sail.
You want the least time under catholicism, the most time under protestantism, for institutional development, followed by the maximization of trade that produces all the norms traditions and values of a majority middle class that becomes a demand engine for innovation.

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