Just... nope. Australian aborigines regressed technologically, to give just one example,
and without a sufficiently high average IQ any ideas the odd brilliant mind dreams up will be wasted, because there won't be a society capable of putting it into practice. The idea of inevitable, often rapid, technological & societal progress is an incredibly Euro-centric idea - heck, even the idea of universal laws of physics is pretty unusual. I don't know if the Chinese had such ideas (I don't know enough about Buddhism and the like, but the idea of a celestial bureaucracy at least points to the idea of a universe run on laws), but for most of humanity, the world was run according to the whims of gods and demons, spirits and whatnot (even in Islam, if Allah says 2+2=5, then by God, 2+2=5), so hammering out universal laws of physics was something of a fool's errand. And finally, as the Greeks & Romans showed, merely inventing something (like steam power) isn't enough - you have to be able to apply it usefully. Not a high priority in a time where labour-saving devices existed in the form of slaves
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Yeah. Jared Diamond makes a good point regarding things like the number of domesticated animals there were on the Eurasian (plus North African) landmass, ease of diseases spreading etc (eg west-east is easier in terms of climate than north-south), but takes it too far.
What's your starting date / scenario? Because when humans arrived in the Americas we were
very efficient in exterminating almost all of the big wildlife, including IIRC the horses that were native to the place. So the later the native humans decide to race down the tech tree, the fewer options there will even be for domesticating animals.