Was america in the 1860s really any more advanced than ancient rome was?
No, America in 1860 was more advanced. A key item: movable type!!! In ancient Rome, everything readable had to be copied by hand laboriously. Far more advanced manufacturing techniques, in which we had interchangeable parts so things could be made in large quantities quickly via assembly line. The telegraph! Allowing near instantaneous communication between large distances. The industrial revolution was really in full swing by this point, too, with inventions coming fast and furious. Advanced smelting techniques. I’m sure I can think of more. Eyeglasses advanced ceramics pasteurization vaccination far more of the world had been explored advances in crop development animal husbandry anesthesia gunpowder crossbows cannons advanced production techniques like the cotton gin mathematically, we had the zero, which Romans didn’t, we had all of the Newtonian laws Because of all these things, people and ideas could spread faster than ever before. things could be produced faster and cheaper than
