Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4656717-20130820115709/@comment-32656-20130825115439

Yeah, that's the common teaching. But when someone publishes a pamphlet that out and out calls the Pope an idiot in it, his parade is going to get rained on, hard.

A bit less as advanced, but not for the reasons you'd think. More unity means less competition. Less competition means that the need for tech improvement is less. Thus it goes slower.

Think of it this way: War makes technology advance faster - you need only look at WWII for an example. In a more unified world, there would be less war, or war-scares.