• Had Europe never existed, the world would be stuck in the 14th century.

    From Byker@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 7 19:33:24 2019
    XPost: alt.history, talk.politics.misc, alt.history.what-if

    There was nothing like the industrial or scientific revolutions anywhere
    else. In fact, some parts of the world were barely above caveman level even
    in the 1500's. China, India, etc., so called "civilizations" had ZERO progressive spark. Their evolution had ceased 1000 years before. Little had changed. Had Europeans not existed, we would be subsistence farmers, dying
    on average at 35 and existing instead of being able to really live. A
    nothing world. Thank goodness Europe existed.

    Just think, had the bubonic plague wiped out all the Christian Europeans,
    the Americas would've remained undiscovered, with "noble savages" still
    running around and the entire Eastern Hemisphere forever stuck in a medieval time warp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEYwXLpBpfI

    Had there been no plague, though, things wouldn't have been much better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1aULu6BqNs

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