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		aebtebeten on Sept 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The industrial quasi-revolution of Song dynasty Ch... Ask Alsace about the desirability of being coal- (and iron-?) rich in the middle of a continental landmass... (I would have added "on a frontier", but the question then is "which frontier?")

alephnerd on Sept 16, 2023 [–]

France and what became Germany didn't fight a war over Alsace Loraine until 1871, well after industrialization was on track, plus it wasn't a war of plunder, unlike what the Mongols did to the Song or the Pakhtun, Sikh, and Maratha Confederacies did to the Mughals.

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