What is the easiest POD to have a more technologically advanced timeline?

[MattII]

Pretty much my view on it too.

 

[Isot the Terrible]

I agree that cold wars will spur technological development, but Hot Wars like the World Wars? no way!

Example, the USA invested 40% of their GDP in WWII (An effect of WWI). Those money should have been for economica and technological development.

GDP is not fixed. US Production and GDP expanded during WWII, due to mobilisation and improved technology.

Russia and its surrounding areas lost more than 100 million people due to the 2 World Wars.

More people does not necessarily mean more advancement.

Their industries got destroyed as well.

And rebuilt. With improved technology, especially in Germanys case.

Without WWI and WWII, Russia would have ben the largest economy in the world behind India and China (inevitable this would have ben the case).

Seriously, you think without WWI, (then British) India would have been inevitably the largest economy in the World?

 

[MattII]

More people does not necessarily mean more advancement.

No, but more people does allow a larger number of people not working in agriculture, and thus capable of going into other, more intellectual jobs.

And rebuilt. With improved technology, especially in Germanys case.

With money from outside.

 

[Emperor RyRy]

Have the Song Dynasty actually go over the Industrialization line. Mass produce repeating crossbows and cannon. Here ya go. With so many hundreds of millions more potential innovators, and with Song capitalism going, basically we get everything sooner and with an Eastern twist.

 

[Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck]

I actively despise this graph for its lack of historical honesty, historical logic, and its completely unsubtle imperial apologist stance.

teg

WHo invented this stupid graph?

When i comes to tech, the Middle Ages were more innovative than Rome.