@rlier23 The environment is a small part of Europes development imo, especially not something like "delicious food". The biggest factor I think is the closeness of all the different peoples, along with whacky ol feudalism.
America had an abundance of territory, but the culture of the North American people led them to never develop the same ideas that drove European wars, and doomed to be conquered by Europeans. The South American natives were weakened by internal strife, and European disease.
Africa is a bit harder for me to wonder why they never developed further, but I think it's the geography there. Desert and jungle is hard to traverse and form any large centralized nation, so tribes and villages triumphed there, but left them vulnerable to Europeans.
Asias the wild card I think

, India had a decent chance, but because their local rulers were more concerned with keeping their power they sold out to Europeans if i understand right, and China was so far up their own ass and incredibly unstable cause of the whole Mandate of Heaven and Court Culture, so it was only a matter of time for them to fall apart once they ran into Europe.
Basically I just think Europe got lucky to have lots of different people very close to each other, with lots of reasons to hate each other, that they were constantly forced to develop and exchange new ideas and tech putting them in a position to grow into the future world powers.>
anyway if any of my ramblings made no sense tell me.