Eurasia - The Biggest City in Western Europe

Eurasia from Spain to Korea gets walked by barbarian invasions, high civilization collapses. And then things simply fall off a cliff. You get 650 years of treading water during which there's remarkably little civilizational advance in terms of better technologies. I think because people are much more complicated than simple productive network nodes.

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