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Actually, you had the castle stage before the roman empire and this was during the bronz age with the palace culture. The city states of Greece were more like a
by gostsamo 5y ago
Actually, you had the castle stage before the roman empire and this was during the bronz age with the palace culture. The city states of Greece were more like an exception with their counterpart in western Europe being the nordic Hanseatic league and the merchant city states of Italy.
Of course, the technological level of the world was different and the collapse wasn't that bad to the south, so the developments of western Europe did not mirror the past, but you can find good enough similarities if you look carefully.
- lifeisstillgood 5y agoThank you - the Bronze Age palace culture (of which I know embarrassingly little) is a perfect example - interesting that we not quite fragment into exact smae shapes we built up from.
- gostsamo 5y agoYou have different technologies for food production, construction, and going to war. Climate and available animals might also affect the solution to a given problem. There are so many factors that affect it and that interact with each other.