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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7035338" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I haven't read any of this sort, but presumably, Sandalpunk is what results if the engineers of Rhodes spread their inventions widely. You end up with complex clockwork devices up to and including simple analog computers and animatronics, knowledge of calculus, warfare that includes napalm, primitive steam engines, wind and water power sparking an industrial revolution, and really every other invention known to the ancient Greeks but never capitalized on. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I've got nothing here, because the late middles ages and early renaissance were some of the greatest technological and social revolutions in history. Unlike the Hellenistic period, the late middle ages were a time when technology was becoming democratized and the full implications of things like waterwheels or pulleys where being (finally) fully explored and capitalized on. Gunpowder was being turned into cannons. Water was being pumped to allow deep shaft mining. Those astronomical clocks that the Greeks invented 1600 years before and promptly forgot about were finally being built and not forgotten. Candlepunk IMO is what happened in real life in Cistercian monasteries where they invented the modern world. It wasn't a time when technological promise like the Antikythera mechanism or Babbage's engine were present, but not really capitalized on. The closest I can get is a world where this promise isn't smashed by the Black Death and famines of the 14th century, leading to a very brief break in the explosive growth of knowledge and engineering. But exactly what they knew that they weren't capitalizing on, I'm not sure. I suppose you could create it by reversing the trend, and tell a story where the Catholic church really cracked down hard on the Cistercian engineers and the Jesuit astronomers in an attempt to squash technological change, resulting in class conflict between those that wanted to preserve the old order and those that wanted to overthrow it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7035338, member: 4937"] I haven't read any of this sort, but presumably, Sandalpunk is what results if the engineers of Rhodes spread their inventions widely. You end up with complex clockwork devices up to and including simple analog computers and animatronics, knowledge of calculus, warfare that includes napalm, primitive steam engines, wind and water power sparking an industrial revolution, and really every other invention known to the ancient Greeks but never capitalized on. I've got nothing here, because the late middles ages and early renaissance were some of the greatest technological and social revolutions in history. Unlike the Hellenistic period, the late middle ages were a time when technology was becoming democratized and the full implications of things like waterwheels or pulleys where being (finally) fully explored and capitalized on. Gunpowder was being turned into cannons. Water was being pumped to allow deep shaft mining. Those astronomical clocks that the Greeks invented 1600 years before and promptly forgot about were finally being built and not forgotten. Candlepunk IMO is what happened in real life in Cistercian monasteries where they invented the modern world. It wasn't a time when technological promise like the Antikythera mechanism or Babbage's engine were present, but not really capitalized on. The closest I can get is a world where this promise isn't smashed by the Black Death and famines of the 14th century, leading to a very brief break in the explosive growth of knowledge and engineering. But exactly what they knew that they weren't capitalizing on, I'm not sure. I suppose you could create it by reversing the trend, and tell a story where the Catholic church really cracked down hard on the Cistercian engineers and the Jesuit astronomers in an attempt to squash technological change, resulting in class conflict between those that wanted to preserve the old order and those that wanted to overthrow it. [/QUOTE]
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