European hegemony was caused by the Industrial Revolution was caused by high labor value relative to material costs was caused by discontiguous empires was caused by long-range trade.
You catch some flak in the comments for making big claims like this, but I wanted to chime in and say that I wish more people would take stabs at macro-historical hypotheses like this one. So, strong upvote from me for hypothesizing about a difficult, often avoided-on-status-grounds(?) domain.
You catch some flak in the comments for making big claims like this, but I wanted to chime in and say that I wish more people would take stabs at macro-historical hypotheses like this one. So, strong upvote from me for hypothesizing about a difficult, often avoided-on-status-grounds(?) domain.