WI: New World/Old World Tech Swap

What if the American civilizations had developed technology similar to the civilizations of the Old World of the OTL, whereas at the same time, the Old World had only the technology of the Native Americans of the OTL? So basically a vice-versa situation.
 
How would it have ? That's the better question you should try to answer to.

The fact is that they had stayed at the neolithic stage. And there were very objective reasons for this : geographic isolation, backwards social organization.

Geography is of course the most most most important factor in history. If you put people in isolated areas (consider the goegraphy of south America and Mexico) where they can hardly have intense relations with other civilized areas, it is very hard for them to modernize.
 
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