Arguably the greatest overall change in Human society since the rise of agriculture and urban centers during the Neolithic Revolution.

• Earliest plausible Industrial Revolution ?
• Challenge: Earlier Scientific Revolution
• Postponing Industrialization
• Industrial revolution before the first millenium!
• What POD should one choose to have early industrialization in the Roman period ?
• How could the world skip the industrial age?
• Industrial Revolution before gunpowder?
• Possible ways to delay an industrial revolution after the year 1600 AD
• Preventing or delaying the industrial revolution
• When did the Industrial Revolution become a high probability event?
• Plausibility check: Industrialization without liberalism ?
• Changes to the industrial revolution without the American Revolutionary War and Opium Wars or with their different outcomes ?
• Speeding up the industrial revolution
• Mercantilism or Free Trade for Industrialization ?
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• "Pulling a Meiji"
• Industrial Revolution in Rome ?
• What if a Parallel Industrial Revolution ?
• Hero's steam engine triggers Greek industrial revolution ?
• French-led Industrial Revolution
• Challenge: Industrial Revolution in Italy
• Plausibility check: Non-industrializing Westernization
• WI: Venetian Industrial Revolution
• Plausibility check: Industrial Revolution starts in Belgium ?
• Challenge: Belgium as the second country to undergo industrial revolution after the UK
• Must America always be industrial ?
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• If fossil fuels didn't exist, how would humanity have developed ?
• Challenge: Renewables-fueled Industrial Revolution
• Plausibility check: Trains with Stirling Engines ?
• Loss of the 'Rocket'
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Points of Divergence : Economy and Trade

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