Going back further- Moore explains a series of European continental population explosions and contractions that put forth an ecological crisis that put pressure on the current feudal system to change. He begins his account of the origins of capitalism in the 11th and 14th century population boom in medieval Europe during the golden age of European feudalism- nearly 500 years before Appleby or Wood begin their explanations due to a rejection of the commercialization model. Moore describes a Europe where “Cities grew. There was significant growth of manufacturing output and cash-crop agriculture, part and parcel of a generalized wave of commercial expansion throughout Afro-Eurasia.” (Moore 2002, p. 303) After this golden age, revenues to lords
