More cargo, both bulk and containers, is hauled on European big rivers annually than on European roads and railroads combined. Even today there is still no way to cheaply ship bulky items over long distances other than, well, shipping them.
Population kept rising with it, of course, no canals have been dug or allowed to silt up and no rivers have changed course or been made (un)navigable note Even today, 90% of the bulk/weight of world-trade entails shipping. No more or less land is under the plough note This is one area in which things most consistently changed over time throughout the last three thousand years of Eurasian (but not so much American or Australian, prior to European settlement) history, though there have been reverses.
No new nations have arisen, and none have been subsumed into others or wiped out. Heck, the 'castles and knights' period of Medieval Europe didn't even make it to five hundred years, and compare these ◊ three castles to get some idea of how much things changed even then.įurthermore, there have been no wars - between countries or civil wars - and no redrawing of any inter-state boundaries.
Medieval Stasis is a situation in which, as far as the technological, cultural, and sociopolitical level are concerned, thousands of years pass as if they were minutes.
