AHC delay or prevent industrialization?

[PolishMagnet]

Could the industrial revolution, and more broadly ANY kind of mass industrialization, be slowed or delayed?

How long could it be delayed for? Could it have been avoided completely?

How would culture, language, and technology develop in this timeline?

 

[Mad Bad Rabbit]

Could the industrial revolution, and more broadly ANY kind of mass industrialization, be slowed or delayed?

How long could it be delayed for? Could it have been avoided completely?

How would culture, language, and technology develop in this timeline?

Replace the Black Plague with the Black Mange that kills sheep, so that Europe's biggest problem is food and cloth shortages not labor shortages, and there is little demand for labor-saving machinery.

 

[PolishMagnet]

Replace the Black Plague with the Black Mange that kills sheep, so that Europe's biggest problem is food and cloth shortages not labor shortages, and there is little demand for labor-saving machinery.

How long would that delay industrialization?

Also, what is the likelihood that industrialization happens elsewhere? Perhaps China or India?

 

[CalBear]

Please use the Pre-1900 Misc. thread for these sorts of WI.

You need to actually start a discussion not just ask a question or issue an AH challenge

Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread ​

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