XPost: talk.politics.misc, soc.history.what-if, alt.history.what-if
From: byker@do~rag.net

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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