/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I think Steam powered locomotives would not only lead to them becoming industrialized, but would have probably meant the Holy Roman Empire would exist today and would have control of the entire Mediterranean Sea and Americas. What would occur is that the HRE connects major cities to a steam train network. Europeans eventually figure out how to power other things with steam (would not take long). Europe remains united because of the interconnectivity. They retake all of the middle east and the northern horn of Africa. The European colonial period began around 1500, so in this alternative history, the Holy Roman Empire would fund the colonization efforts instead of Britain, Spain, Denmark, etc...

>>2693589
>>2693880
>anons stuck in 2008
The whole le atheism shtick is getting old right?

>>2693600
You are over thinking this. You need to teach something that over the entire period could boost civilization.
>>2693604
Sanitation is a fairly decent idea. The only issue I think would be that they would need to quickly invent better farming methodologies or starvation would come rapidly.