- Also why scholars argue that Africa’s political development was different than Europe’s (due to land abundance/population scarcity). Land oriented institutions like feudalism or territorial sovereignty based states were not as important (is the claim, I’m not an expert). See two great books below:
- This is fascinating. Even though I kinda knew the background facts, I'd never visually grasped just how large the share of Europe in the world population used to be. I knew the ratio with India/China but had not appreciated that the Americas and Africa were so much less populous.
