What If Rome Industrialized? | Alternate History

What if the Roman Empire under Emperor Augustus managed to successfully achieve widespread proto-industrialization before becoming fully industrialized; making use of both new and existing technologies, like that of the Greco-Egyptian inventor, Hero of Alexandria, famous for his steam-powered devices and automation?

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[MonsieurDean]

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[antfruit]

This seems like a good setting for a fiction novel, especially with the Roman Steam tanks without guns.

[ahel]

Ah that Monte Python meme just got funnier.
"What have the Romans ever done for us?"
"Everything."
"Aside from that what have they done for us recently?"

[afrikayt]

then there would be a different saying: "all trains lead to rome"

[Volvith]

Rome: **industrializes**
Barbarian Tribes: "Why do i hear boss music?"

[ynk]

Next up: What if Rome set up a self-sufficient moon colony?

[rokball]

Next Roman Series:
1. What if the Roman discover gunpowder(Remake)
2. What if the Roman Empire war with Han Dynasty?

[Kronos]

"What If Rome Industrialized?" THE IMPERIUM OF MAN INTENSIFIES

[Grymbaldknight]

I've heard it said that the Greeks were akin to theoretical scientists, whereas the Romans were more like engineers. This is why the Greeks are hailed as the "intellectuals" - philosophers, astronomers, inventors - whereas the Romans were "builders" - architects, legislators, and mechanics.
There was overlap, of course, but Greek and Roman "thinkers" were two sides of the same coin.

[andrewstrongman]

The British Empire begs to differ; had the Romans industrialised 1, 000 years ago and pioneered steam-power and firearms, etc, they might have become the first global superpower. Even a simple telegraph system would have negated the need to split the empire into East and West.

[Flynn]

They were so close to industrialization. They had the basic concept of a steam engine. It's unfortunate the technology wasn't developed further. The Romans just weren't able to see the potential of the technology. But, that was in large part due to their society being so reliant on slaves.

[Electru]

I'd say that if the Romans somehow industrialized, we would easily be a space faring civilization right now. We've had just over 100 years of industrialization, and the world doesn't look like anything it did back during the turn of the 20th century.

Think of what we would achieve with 20 times that amount of time.

[TheLukas]

Imagine steamengines were invented in an intact roman empire in 500AD.
The solar System would be fully colonized now.

[jasminelove]

I want a big Rome does everything video, where we take a potential timeline where we follow Rome throughout its history, even if it isn't completely realistic I would enjoy watching it.

[jamesmoran]

Love how dovahhatty is in this video a more unbiased roman there has never been.

[bruxstrux]

I firmly believe that 40k is essentially what would've happened had rome gotten to our tech era on their own.

[FakeSchrodingersCat]

The main problem with Rome that prevented it from achieving an industrial revolution was the disconnect between the classes as well as those between urban and rural. You have to look at the Roman class structure and the pattern of industrialization. It is easy to fall into the trap of looking back and connecting the pieces of knowledge but books were expensive, and the rich had servants who had underlings who were still self important enough to delegate the running of the estates. It is all well that combining the principles in Heron's Pneumatica with his Mechanica and Baroulcus gives you almost all of the knowledge necessary to build a engine and pump almost equivalent to Watt's, but each of those books were extremely hard to find and cost more then what an artisan who could use that knowledge earns in his lifetime, while the majority of those who did have a copy viewed them as pure status symbols and never read them.

Things like the flour mill mentioned in the video was probably the work of someone in the senatorial class with mechanisms as a hobby, they probably did it just to see if they could, but it would never even occur to them to spread the knowledge outside of their class circle who for the most part didn't care any more then the average person of today cares about a 1000 square foot model train diorama.

[thescotsman]

What? an unbiased crossover episode?!

A surprise to be sure but a welcome one,
Hail Dovahhatty

[Vermn]

YO, I DID NOT EXPECT TO HEAR DOVAH'S VOICE. CARTHAGO DELENDA EST

[esgxdih]

The British Museum has a Roman water pump from 300AD. The quality of the cast and machined brass piping, fittings, cylinders and so on make it clear to me that they could have done steam power with a little more experimentation.