Ultimate Causes: Explaining the Difference between Western Europe and the Rest of Eurasia
Ultimate Causes: Explaining the Difference between Western Europe and the Rest of Eurasia
Ultimate Causes: Explaining the Difference between Western Europe and the Rest of Eurasia
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United States: Princeton University Press
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Throughout the late medieval and the early modern period, western Europe met all the conditions needed to advance the gunpowder technology. No other part of Eurasia could make that claim—not China, not Japan, not India, not Russia, and not the Ottoman Empire. Yes, they could improve the technology on their own and at times catch up with the western...
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Ultimate Causes: Explaining the Difference between Western Europe and the Rest of Eurasia
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0691139709,9780691139708
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10.1515/9781400865840-004
