On: The legacies of 1917

[jscipione]

There is no contradiction, medieval states regularly build massive engineering feats including Cathedrals all over Europe.

[astrodust → jscipione]

Pretty easy to build megastructures when you're the Church and you can squeeze the local population for every bit of money they have.

Those things would also take several generations to build. They weren't comparable to highways or railways that got laid down within a decade.