How did this 'thing' ever industralize. I didn't know the Reich was just a bunch of hundred warring states just 30 years ago before WW1
>>18108154The west overtook the east with high literacy plus the slave trade profits and looting of indingeous gold and silver. The profits from the slave trade helped the Industrial Revolution in Britain and the Low Countries and their neighbours kept up naturally.
>>18108154Thirty years before WW1 was 1884 anon
>>18108562r/theydidthemath
>>18108154Not sure if this is a bait thread, but the map you posted is of the 1780s