In the chaos of the fall of the Roman Empire, Europeans no longer looked to restore institutions but instead to adopt the “whatever would work” approach. The result? Europe developed a relatively new and effective set of institutions, adapted to a moneyless economy, inadequate transportation and communication facilities, an ineffective central government, and a constant threat of armed Viking invasions. Unsteadily leaning on feudalism and manoralism and motivated by new technology Europe slowly developed from a substance economy to a rural country side laden by trade routes inhabited with many small semi-urbanized towns sustained by mercantilism.
Cautious of attacks from nearly every front, medieval Europeans embraced feudalis
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