What if The European Renaissance Never Happened?

>>2005026
This question is redundant. Europe was destined to become a world hegemon because of it's geography, unless in this hypothetical timeline you kill off Europe's population or have the entire continent get invaded or some shit. In that case I would say the world would be several hundred years less advanced than our timeline, the powers of Asia had no incentive to explore the new world and no means to kick off an industrial revolution.

>>2005235
>Geographical determinism

Jared Diamons pls.

>>2005235
please leave

>>2005245
>>2005249
ITT faggots who hate the scientific method.

>>2005235
>no means to kick off an industrial revolution
I've heard from multiple accounts that the Asian powers were technologically and scientifically superior until around the 16th-18th century, during which Europeans began to surpass them. Also, China has always had rich coal reserves, the key resource for industrialization. Can you challenge these statements?

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>>2005235
Gotta love geographical chauvinists.

>>2005259
>poorly substantiated speculation
>science

>>2005612
The handover begins after the Chinese (by asian you mean chinese basically) got MONGOL'd. What happens is the next dynasty after is a Han dynasty obsessed with the eternal altaic. It withdraws from much of government duty outside of maintaining a beautiful wall, and then gets hit by a mini ice age and changes in trade policy from spain and japan.

The Song invented mines, firelances and other explosive based weapons. Only a few hundred years later the Ming were importing cannons from Europe. Quite sad desu.