Karmic Acumen
The long-suffering one
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You can totally have an agricultural revolution in Westeros though. And I disagree some about the industrial revolution too, it's like people forgot it all happened during the victorian age. Industry is a lot more than guns and smoking factories. Textiles will incentivise a certain level of automation all by themselves, even if it takes water wheels. Same for metalworking mass production, you can get that running just to make better farming tools, people used to have wooden shovels you know.
The real bottleneck is in making precision-measuring tools. If the SI knows about that (rubbing three stones together ad nauseam), he sure as hell can kick it off, even if it takes more than his lifetime.
The cultural/economic/whatever conditions? Sorry, but they aren't as big a hindrance as you all like to think. It was called a revolution because it went against that very same status quo. And it won. In some cases, it even won without the ugly parts (the American School).
The real bottleneck is in making precision-measuring tools. If the SI knows about that (rubbing three stones together ad nauseam), he sure as hell can kick it off, even if it takes more than his lifetime.
The cultural/economic/whatever conditions? Sorry, but they aren't as big a hindrance as you all like to think. It was called a revolution because it went against that very same status quo. And it won. In some cases, it even won without the ugly parts (the American School).
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