aside from white people (mostly of germanic ancestry - you have england, denmark, the low countries, eastern france, northern italy, and germany) they had family structures that lent themselves well to success (stem nuclear and absolute nuclear - france is the odd one out, being mainly egalitarian nuclear, but that does partly explain why they lagged a bit behind the others), and at the time of the black death, england and the netherlands both had parliamentary monarchies that prevented overt government interference in the market, so the drastic population drop caused wages to skyrocket, leading to an era of high prosperity and rapid economic growth that wasn't present in other parts of europe where governments simply introduced wage controls. these areas also had robust intellectual property laws, creating a strong economic incentive for their growing middle class to use their increased free time and surplus wealth tinkering and inventing things, and providing a legal framework to facilitate business between inventors and capital owners.
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