Post-Classical India And Medieval Europe
Post-classical India and Medieval Europe were similar politically and different economically. Politically, neither society had a centralized government any more, they were in political turmoil and were run by individual, regional states. Economically, India was mostly trade and export based which is how it’s economy flourished while Europe was well off due to southernization, they didn’t join the major trade network until the late middle ages. After the Gupta dynasty in India, King Harsha continued with trying to revive the centralized government, unfortunately for him the local rulers had securely established their place in the government. Harsha wasn’t able to defeat them because of that and the centralized government was unable to be