only later in the timeline, the 'east companies' will emerge (Muscovy Company - I guess its the first one), already under the bourgeoisie power framework in UK... an interesting point is that there was a try for a ''Portuguese East India Company'', but maybe for a lack of a bourgeoisie structure it failed, Iberia(Portugal-Spain) had gone through Muslim-catholic transition not long before...and the source of power was yet religion, while UK...I'm not so sure yet, but being an island not sure if there was some non-catholic presence there before...so it may have allowed a better framework for political political power end up with the bourgeoisie under Catholic kings
another way to think about those questions is that the bourgeoisie can get power in the UK, in a way that wouldn't be possible in places where power would come from religion. London has London Corp. to these days, as Italy has the Vatican.
if you look to Arabic history through the framework of power provided by Ibn Khaldun, usually referred to as Asabiyyah it becomes kinda clear, why there was no reason to move towards an industrial revolution...i kinda think that it only happens in regions where the bourgeoisie could find space and rise to power. In Roma the power would come from religion. In the UK the power would come from money,
feel that most of those questions can be responded on the perspective of Arabic History/pré-Islamic history and even though the Umayyad emirate in Spain...There was already trade routes between Arabic world and China at the birth of Islam around the year 700
only later in the timeline, the 'east companies' will emerge (Muscovy Company - I guess its the first one), already under the bourgeoisie power framework in UK... an interesting point is that there was a try for a ''Portuguese East India Company'', but maybe for a lack of a bourgeoisie structure it failed, Iberia(Portugal-Spain) had gone through Muslim-catholic transition not long before...and the source of power was yet religion, while UK...I'm not so sure yet, but being an island not sure if there was some non-catholic presence there before...so it may have allowed a better framework for political political power end up with the bourgeoisie under Catholic kings
another way to think about those questions is that the bourgeoisie can get power in the UK, in a way that wouldn't be possible in places where power would come from religion. London has London Corp. to these days, as Italy has the Vatican.
if you look to Arabic history through the framework of power provided by Ibn Khaldun, usually referred to as Asabiyyah it becomes kinda clear, why there was no reason to move towards an industrial revolution...i kinda think that it only happens in regions where the bourgeoisie could find space and rise to power. In Roma the power would come from religion. In the UK the power would come from money,
feel that most of those questions can be responded on the perspective of Arabic History/pré-Islamic history and even though the Umayyad emirate in Spain...There was already trade routes between Arabic world and China at the birth of Islam around the year 700