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This thought has been in my mind for a days now.
Say what if the Song dynasty didn't have an industrial revolution.
I know it's sorta ASB.
So let's just say before the industrial revolution a barbarian tribe, let's just say the mongols but it could be any barbarians. Attacked the middle kingdom and conquered it(I'm begining to hear people shouting ASB ^_^) and thus preventing the industrial revolution.
What could be it's consequences?
Would another people have industrialized maybe the Maya or Aztecs in the east? Or the Arabs or Caucasians in the west?