What if Europe's population boom had gone differently?

Better food and fewer famines push European population sharply upward.

If it had gone differently: Without a surplus of hands and mouths, there is no cheap urban workforce waiting for the factories.

The real history on Wikipedia ↗

Later turning points that leaned on Europe's population boom. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.

1. 1780The Industrial Revolution. Without it, Growth stays flat and Malthusian; most people alive in 1900 live about as their great-grandparents did.