AHC: Delay the Industrial Revolution for as long as possible

With a PoD after the Seven Years War, delay the industrial revolution as long as you possibly can. I'm talking 20th century, maybe even later.

Bonus points if you create a situation in which the world can never industrialize.

EDIT: No apocalypse. Civilization must go on, just stagnate.
 
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On Middle Ages or earlier in Europe rise religion which oppose all kind of industrialism and technology don't advance. Economic structure too might be better to be very stagnatised.
 
With a PoD after the Seven Years War, delay the industrial revolution as long as you possibly can. I'm talking 20th century, maybe even later.

Bonus points if you create a situation in which the world can never industrialize.

EDIT: No apocalypse. Civilization must go on, just stagnate.

Not really possible since it was already starting by the time of the Seven Years War?
 
limit the Bubonic Plague as much as possible. that'll keep labor cheap.

suppress dissenting movements, or better yet satisfy them with a bit of compromise.

undermine the townsfolk or place them under noblemen. the freemen of the towns are ever the catalysts of change.

make it such that society is at a relatively stable and comfortable level, and keep it there for as long as possible.

so long as there is no need to change, change will not happen.

see Egypt as an example. they had protection from most enemies and abundance near the Nile. and their situation was peaceful enough that Egypt remained essentially the same for ages.

oh... after the Seven Years' War. nope. as the other guy said, it was already starting.
 
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