Findlay, Ronald (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
shall take “Europe” to be the sum of all these territories i.e. what is conventionally regarded
today as Western Europe … Western Europe to
becoming a land-locked economic and cultural backwater. The economic system regressed to
become a self …,
Robert Lopez (1943), as the “four disappearances” from Western Europe – of papyrus, luxury
fabrics, spices and gold coins …