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Many fictional/fantasy books* depict world were technology is similar to OTL 1300s (without gunpowder), but this have been so for thousands of years.

Would it have been possible for technology and social forms of organization distinct of ORL Medieval Europe (feudalism and such) to remain like that for a much longer period? Or was a sort of Renaissance/discovery of the Americas/humanism/birth of modern science inevitable and unstopable?

Would the absence of the printing press and gunpowder be enough to put progress to a halt? If no, how could it be done?


*Such as a Song of Fire and Ice, which I've just started reading
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