If this is what I'm thinking then it's like Japan's history. Where Japan was basically run by feudal lords and their loyal clans. until Japan started to becomes westernized. It's affects where a civil war between the samurai fighting for the old ways and the new Japan military who were fighting for railroads and a new age that would disgrace the samurai's life style.
Johannes Gutenburg created the printing press during the renaissance. It was important because it made the mass production of printed materials possible. It also lead to a much wider dissemination of knowledge and literacy throughout the socioeconomics classes.
