The Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations

Chap. V

Of the cities and nations that rose to wealth and power in the middle ages, after the fall of the Western Empire, and previous to the discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, and of America. — Different effects of wealth on nations in cold and in warm climates, and of the fall of the Eastern Empire..............44

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