Re: [TML] Some more thoughts on TU system development vs countries on Earth Evyn MacDude 26 Aug 2014 20:22 UTC
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote: > > On Aug 26, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote: > >> Would an urge to expand/conquer (Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Manifest Destiny, etc) be enough to initiate, sustain, & then maintain something like that? > > There is no such thing as ‘urge to expand/conquer’. Speak for yourself, I fight that urge everyday... ;-) > > > No one goes off conquering for the joy of conquering. ALWAYS follow the money! Well, there is that too.... With those quips, I must point out that India and China were both largely fractionated with intrusion of of the European powers into their respective regions. And it was in the Western powers interest for said regions to remain largely as they where as the commodities they where interested in required a large amount of labor. Look at the traditional methods for processing opium and silks and the like. As for Japan industrialization speed up as a result of the Meiji Restoration, while there was a lot of influence by the western powers this was largely a Japanese initiative. Also unlike China and India Japan was industrialized to nearly western level prior to 1900. (i.e. less that 40 years, though there was a significant movement already native to Japan at this time). -- Evyn