🌊 Ripple · counterfactual
What if the Glorious Revolution had gone differently?
1688 · britain
Parliament deposes a king and sets the terms of the next one, locking in constitutional monarchy.
If it had gone differently: The English crown keeps its arbitrary power over taxes and courts; property and lending stay risky.
What it set up
- 1694The Bank of England is founded, Capital stays scarce and expensive; there is no deep pool of credit for canals, mines and mills.
- 1720The Enlightenment, Absolutism keeps its intellectual cover; 'rights of man' never enters common speech.
- 1776The American Revolution, British North America stays British; no early proof that a large republic can work.
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