Abandoned the wheel
what does the word ' abandoned the wheel' mean in this sentence which is at the end of this text.
But if tea is a factor in the combination lock, why didn't Japan forge ahead in a tea-soaked industrial revolution of its own? Macfarlane notes that even though 17th-century Japan had large cities, high literacy rates, even a future market, it had turned its back on the essence of any work-based revolution by giving up labour-saving devices such as animals,afraid that they would put people out of work. So, the nation that we now think of as one of the most technologically advanced enterd the 19th century having 'abandoned the wheel'.
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The meaning is this. Japan had given up the use of labour-saving devices, such as the wheel. The writer is using 'the wheel' to symbolize all labour-saving devices.
- The meaning is this.
- Japan had given up the use of labour-saving devices, such as the wheel.
- The writer is using 'the wheel' to symbolize all labour-saving devices.
- Clive
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The meaning is this.
Japan had given up the use of labour-saving devices, such as the wheel.
The writer is using 'the wheel' to symbolize all labour-saving devices.
Clive
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