The Long Roads to Industrial Revolutions at Both Ends of the Eurasian Continent

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  • ユーラシア大陸の東と西における産業革命への道のり

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If we accept that the European economy caught up with the Chinese economy somewhere between 1500 CE and 1800 CE，depending on how they are measured，one should naturally wonder why and how China managed to maintain its lead for such a long period of time，from the fall of Rome until the arrival of the early modern period. What factors were at work on both sides of the Eurasian Continent? And why and how was Europe able to catch up with China laying the basis for the eventual widening of the gap to such an extent that it has been named the Great Divergence（ Pomeranz，2000）? These are the questions that the present paper seeks to investigate. Among various factors，both endogenous and exogenous，that are interwoven in a complex manner，the paper focuses on the absence of the Black Death in China and the implications of this for the subsequent development of both economies.

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