That may well be, but the fact that in Serbia there were no steam engines yet does not define your culture. I find it quite amazing that Serbian culture was robust and integral enough to remain intact for five hundred years.

But do remember that in Eastern Europe such technology, as well as the Industrial Revolution as a whole, did not arrive until much later. Russia, a 'free' nation, was an agricultural society up until Stalin's time, so much so that Lenin created 'professional revolutionaries' because there weren't enough laborers to join the revolution as described in Marx's theory. Besides, here in the Netherlands we did not industrialize until the nineties of the 19th century.

Still, you are right if you suppose that that was the fault of the Ottomans, in the case of Serbia. But the amount of industrialization still does not define culture.



~Wiz