Why are all the cradles of civilization shitholes today?
large scale civilization was only feasible on river valleys because of how easy it was to farm there coupled by its immense agricultural output, we have evidence that ancient egyptian peasants had a much richer diet than their contemporaries living in other countries, for example.
other regions maintained much smaller populations due to poor soil, rugged terrain, bad weather or remote locations. europe was, for most of its history, a backwater continent plagued by famine and crime, that was, until the agricultural revolution, when further technological advances were made and output increased substantially, together with the population.
>>710192??? The Dutch Golden Age was two hundred years before any industrialization
You're confusing industrialization with the emergence of capitalism, which was prior.