Which part of “Europe” are you talking about? Western peripheries of Roman Empire got somewhat backwards, and that was after massive demographic collapse of late Antiquity, the rest of Europe didn’t really change all that drastically, or even progressed quite a lot.
Which part of “Europe” are you talking about? Western peripheries of Roman Empire got somewhat backwards, and that was after massive demographic collapse of late Antiquity, the rest of Europe didn’t really change all that drastically, or even progressed quite a lot.