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Originally Posted by Sunrunners_Fire
TL 4 is noted as starting in the 1450s. Europe had around 50 million people at that point in time and the British Isles around 3 million people. If we cut the British Isles of the 1450s off from the rest of the world, you are saying that the Isles wouldn't be able to maintain their technology base but would instead revert down to ... TL 2 or so?
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Yes. Without Britain's extensive overseas trade routes there is no way that it could have maintained a TL4 society.
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