Material rationalism and technology

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If the dogma that material rationalism is responsible for technological novelty is true then how do missile weapons and agriculture fit into that narrative?

Missile weapons and agriculture were probably the biggest technological leaps humanity has ever done. Things like the internet or heart transplants are just results of an impetus that started hundreds of years ago, and are relatively tiny leaps. But to go from not farming to farming on any scale, and to go from throwing spears with your hand to archery - this is humongous progress.

Unless ancient Greece started in the early Paleolithic we are forced to admit that material rationalism and advances in technology are 100% unrelated.