Why didn't the Islamic Golden age manage to achieve liquid blast furnaces? This technology existed in Europe at the time. It's a relatively simple technology, it just requires a decent enough sized river, a waterwheel, wood in the area and imported iron ore. Are you telling me across the entire middle east there wasn't one region where they could do it economically?It's not a demand thing because these guys were constantly importing the excess iron that came out of the Europoor furnaces. It doesn't seem to be a supply thing because they had hand bloomeries and basic forges making iron locally. Even the Ottomans were reliant on importing European blast furnace steel for their cannons to a large degree, well after the medieval period.It's not entirely geographical constraints either because the Islamic world is a huge place with a varying geography, and in some places all those factors converged. You can canal and concentrate water flow, like Europeans increasingly had to, to make the conditions right for a blast furnace. Reasonably close to an iron source, near a river and with trees nearby aren't hard conditions. I'm starting to get the vibes that even during the Islamic golden age, you were starting to see actual industrial divergence between Europe and the Muslim world.
>>18491245Sweden had the most iron ore so they sold it
>>18491245>This technology existed in Europe at the timeno it didn't
>>18491272Even with a comparative advantage I don't understand it. It's not like it's cheap to import from Sweden from Persia during this time.>>18491329Yes it did lol.
