> Were there no other places in Europe, Asia or the Middle East that didn't have the same deforestation issues? There certainly were, I remember reading that m

> Were there no other places in Europe, Asia or the Middle East that didn't have the same deforestation issues? There certainly were, I remember reading that most of what is now France (Gaul, back then) had already lost most of its forests in the present Île-de-France region, i.e. Paris and its surroundings.