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Re:Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution? by KineticLensman on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @09:18AM (#31907304)
This is a great comment but I feel obliged to offer a real-world counterexample: Europe, which had endless cycles of war (plus a few plagues). The Thirty Years War alone killed 5m people.
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Re:Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution? by littlestymaar on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @10:22AM (#31908055)
Non of those were genocidal wars between different species though.

The black death is a better real-life comparison point, and Europe actually took a lot of time to recover.

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