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Comment author: RomeoStevens 24 October 2012 06:29:00PM *  3 points [-]

One of the hypotheses for the difference between Europe and the rest of the world that led to the industrial revolution was that they (especially Britain) had greater controls on the breeding of the peasant class via their particular implementation of serfdom in combination with the edicts of the church.