England continued to lag behind and to borrow from the Middle East and the rest of Europe up to and including the Roman period. Despite such an inauspicious history, it was in England that the first truly inclusive society emerged and where the Industrial Revolution got under way. We argued earlier (this page–this page) that this was the result of a series of interactions between small institutional differences and critical junctures—for example, the Black Death and the discovery of the Americas. English divergence had historical roots, but the view from Vindolanda suggests that these roots
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England sucked at the time and before of Roman empire so it was not until the end of dark ages in europe that it has started to create some seemingly small differences that would lead to industrial revolution in England and not in other places
