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Saudi Arabia encompasses large deserts, and industrial goods have a low "value to weight" ratio. The goods that are likely to be shipped across such deserts have a high value relative to their weight, such as cinnamin, silk, and precious metals.
At the time of the Industrial Revolution (in Europe), most people of Saudi Arabia were still nomadic. People who ...
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By the time the rest of the world was "industrializing", riba had become fully illegal in Islam and Muslim states.
It's unclear that interest was always illegal or to what degree. For instance, in the Constitution of Medina, Jews were more or less allowed a state within a state, following their own religious laws & traditions, so if Arabian Jews were ...
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Europe and East Asia didn't industrialize at the same time. In all of East Asia, probably the first country to Industrialize was Japan, and that didn't happen until the right around the beginning of the 20th century, nearly a century after the process started in Western Europe.
So really you have to compare with Europe. The big advantage here was simply ...
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Presumably he is referring to the Burr conspiracy:
The Burr conspiracy in the beginning of the 19th century was a
suspected treasonous cabal of planters, politicians, and army officers
allegedly led by former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr. According to
the accusations against him, Burr’s goal was to create an independent
nation in the center of ...
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The French Revolution occurred from 1789 to 1799.
The period covered by Les Miserable which is the June Rebellion of 1832.
Articles on the June Rebellion indicate the restored king was Louis Phillipe.
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The early imperialism, from the 16th to the 18th century, was characterized by European "settlers." Europeans would go to the Americas (North and South) or Australia. They would then "push aside" the natives, while living there the rest of their lives. Thus, the European colonies (at least the "settled" parts) would consist mostly of European descendants in ...
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