If you could go back to 1400 and live some place for a year, you almost certainly wouldn’t pick Europe.

I wouldn’t pick any of those other options either though.

I don’t know why people always conflate civilization with resources.
Europeans even before 1492 probably had slightly better lives than the average Indian/Chinese/MENA person, simply because Europe has more land and the climate is easy-mode as fuck. It’s just that they didn’t invent anything.

Roman accounts prove that Northern Europeans had fairly good quality of life, judging purely by the height difference (today it’s only 1-2 inches, but was much bigger back then)

If I could go back to year 1400 and live out an 80 year lifespan, purely for the sake of enjoyment and not for altering history, it’d be North America no contest. South America or Africa second picks