The territory of the Roman Province of Dacia (roughly present-day Romania) is located in an unusually resource-rich geographical area, with large deposits of metals and salt, and most importantly the Ploiești Oil Fields, from which oil is still easy to extract because of the deposit's proximity to the surface, and which in pre-industrial times regularily seeped oil up to ground level.
In the TL Giving Radio to the Romans, a time traveler appears in Rome in the 2nd century CE, and tries to simultaneously advance local technology and science to bring about an early industrial revolution, while trying to reform society to slowly abolish slavery, and work towards a future that is better than OTL. In the topic the OP suggested that the Dacian oil fields would be easily exploitable (at least to a degree) even with Roman technology, and this could fuel early combustion engines. Roman metalworking is too primitive to make steam engines which don't burst, but good enough for the diesel-like Hot Bulb Engine.
So, if for various reasons, Dacia experiences more prosperity and development during Antiquity (either with the survival of a more stable Roman Empire, or with a similarily well-developed and organized post-Roman early medieval Dacia) could that be a location from which an early industrial revolution could spring forth?
Could the first Dacia automobile roll down the production line around 600 CE?
In the TL Giving Radio to the Romans, a time traveler appears in Rome in the 2nd century CE, and tries to simultaneously advance local technology and science to bring about an early industrial revolution, while trying to reform society to slowly abolish slavery, and work towards a future that is better than OTL. In the topic the OP suggested that the Dacian oil fields would be easily exploitable (at least to a degree) even with Roman technology, and this could fuel early combustion engines. Roman metalworking is too primitive to make steam engines which don't burst, but good enough for the diesel-like Hot Bulb Engine.
So, if for various reasons, Dacia experiences more prosperity and development during Antiquity (either with the survival of a more stable Roman Empire, or with a similarily well-developed and organized post-Roman early medieval Dacia) could that be a location from which an early industrial revolution could spring forth?
Could the first Dacia automobile roll down the production line around 600 CE?