Reasons for the backwardness of Europe

[rupol2000]

According to archaeological data, Europe (except for the Danube) was the most backward region of Eurasia, and this backwardness in some places survived until the 7th-8th centuries (Baltic cultures). This mainly concerns the field of linear-band and linear-corded ceramics. 7-8 millennia after copper smelting began in the Middle East, Europeans were still running around in skins with stone hammers.

After the fall of Rome, around the 7th century AD, the Baltic cultures used Neolithic tools and bone needles and lived in dugouts.

Why were they so backward?

 

[Augustine_]

According to archaeological data, Europe (except for the Danube) was the most backward region of Eurasia, and this backwardness in some places survived until the 7th-8th centuries (Baltic cultures). This mainly concerns the field of linear-band and linear-corded ceramics. 7-8 millennia after copper smelting began in the Middle East, Europeans were still running around in skins with stone hammers.

After the fall of Rome, around the 7th century AD, the Baltic cultures used Neolithic tools and bone needles and lived in dugouts.

Why were they so backward?

Interestingly, Europe owes a lot to the Mongols. Genghis Khan slaughtered the far advanced Muslim and Chinese civilizations of his time and were about to do the same to a backwards Europe when they retreated due to Genghis Khan's death back home. I read in a history book that Baghdad did not recover from the Mongol's intentional destruction of their infrastructure until the 20th century. Christians in Europe thought the Mongols were a mythical Christian force that had come to save them from the Muslims, and though he was far from Christian, he probably did save them. The few times a Mongol army decided to push west into Europe, they completely massacred the army's they encountered.

The renaissance started soon after the last conquests of the Khans into Muslim territory so the ascension of Europe as a power can be attributed in part to the Mongol empire.

 

[rupol2000]

Interestingly, Europe owes a lot to the Mongols. Genghis Khan slaughtered the far advanced Muslim and Chinese civilizations of his time and were about to do the same to a backwards Europe when they retreated due to Genghis Khan's death back home. I read in a history book that Baghdad did not recover from the Mongol's intentional destruction of their infrastructure until the 20th century. Christians in Europe thought the Mongols were a mythical Christian force that had come to save them from the Muslims, and though he was far from Christian, he probably did save them. The few times a Mongol army decided to push west into Europe, they completely massacred the army's they encountered.

The renaissance started soon after the last conquests of the Khans into Muslim territory so the ascension of Europe as a power can be attributed in part to the Mongol empire.

Yes, the northeast of Europe, which was outside of Roman influence, was cultured from the East. But it was apparently not the Mongols who did this first, but the Huns. Signs of a developed culture in the upper Dnieper appear approximately with the arrival of the Avar there (the transition of the Dnieper-Dvina to the Tushemlin culture)

 

[whitehall]

The label "Neanderthal" originated from an area in France and evidence indicates that Neanderthals were able to interbreed with humans. A possible reason for the retarded development in early central Europe was that it was populated by neanderthals and a mixture of neanderthals and humans. It's as good a theory as man made global warming anyway.

 

[Coyote]

According to archaeological data, Europe (except for the Danube) was the most backward region of Eurasia, and this backwardness in some places survived until the 7th-8th centuries (Baltic cultures). This mainly concerns the field of linear-band and linear-corded ceramics. 7-8 millennia after copper smelting began in the Middle East, Europeans were still running around in skins with stone hammers.

After the fall of Rome, around the 7th century AD, the Baltic cultures used Neolithic tools and bone needles and lived in dugouts.

Why were they so backward?

You got any links to support your claims?