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Paper, printmaking, compass, and gunpowder revolutionized world history by enabling capitalism, mass literacy, exploration, colonization, and mass politics through gunpowder warfare.
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Four Inventions
Paper, printmaking, compass, and gunpowder revolutionized world history by enabling capitalism, mass literacy, exploration, colonization, and mass politics through gunpowder warfare.
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"...of course, are paper, printmaking, compass, and gunpowder. Alright? And these four inventions, guys, will revolutionize the world. Alright? So if you look at..."
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"the very idea of the printing press made available all these books, all this knowledge that wasn't available before. And now people could just..."
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"Because when you have the musket, now individual soldiers do matter. Okay? Before, it was the knight who was the main weapon in the..."
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"...So this is like a huge advantage over Europe. But these four inventions did not really impact society in China. They had no impact..."
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"...then is, why is it China didn't make use of these four inventions? Just look at paper and printmaking, okay? The problem in China..."
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"China did nothing whatsoever with all four inventions. All right? So the key lesson here, guys, and this is really important, technology does not..."
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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