@matrix
Consider the following:

@matrix >falls back in firearms development
they just realized that firearms are way too complicated and expensive to produce while also stand zero chance against platemail armor, while edge and blunt weaponry tends to give less fucks overall.

>never explores the ocean
they saw the outside world and didn't like it.

>just reproduces old literature with it
maybe it's just so good no one came up with anything better worth printing

@matrix nigger the printing press was invented in germany