Comment on Ask HN: What are some good (fiction/non-fiction) books about human progress?parentComments−DrScump9yA differing opinion would be that he identified correlations. Both guns and steel stem from discoveries and inventions (e.g. gunpowder and smelting), not from physical resources unique to Europe.−matt40779yIt goes much deeper than that. He'd next ask: where do discovery and invention come from?
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A differing opinion would be that he identified correlations. Both guns and steel stem from discoveries and inventions (e.g. gunpowder and smelting), not from physical resources unique to Europe.
It goes much deeper than that. He'd next ask: where do discovery and invention come from?