/lit/ - Literature

>>5698134
The basic premise is Europeans lucked out on having connections to good working animals from Eurasia and that Europe favored balkanization which leads to technological leaps as nations compete.

I personally believe Europeans got ahead of the game because of the following.
1: Close to a source of civilization (ancient middle eastern and Greek ones)
2: Land that is not to harsh to cultivate anything nor to easy on humans to lead them to not advance
3: Use of draught animals
4: Use of steel

If you go by these factors pretty much all of sub-Saharan Africa and America are disqualified. The biggest powers in Asia chose self imposed exile when they still were on a tech level with the rest of the world. This really leaves Europe and the Ottoman empire as sole contenders for world domination. To be honest they were pretty much in a neck a neck race, the Europeans had the advantage of having caravel build ships from oak filled with cannons as opposed to Mediterranean galleys which are not that suited to transatlantic voyages and naval warfare against the European design. Add to that the Ottoman empire had a chronic issue with it's administration and internal power struggles while Europe had smaller countries which were administrative more advanced (and fighting each other).