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In the 1600s the British started the Industrial Revolution. Which lead to Europe colonizing the whole world. I would like to explore an alternate reality where Europe keeps to themselves.

Its an alternate 1600s, Europe decides to use the Industrial Revolution to modernize Europe only, From Portugal to Russia, UK to Greece. They trade with Asia for raw materials and then start working on Science and medicine. Europe pushes ahead, creates electricity, they are in the modern technological era working on space technology.

The rest of the world is living the way they've lived to 10K years still dying of diseases like the cold and getting a simple cut can be deadly.

Would you rather live in a world where Europe is reaching space and the rest of the world is still agrarian?

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[-] considerealization@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2025
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