verbava’s Reviews > Pepper, Wine (and Wool): As the Dynamic Factors of the Social and Economic Development of the Middle Ages > Status Update

довершено: Pepper is a potent aphrodisiac. Deprived of pepper, Europeans could hardly make up for all the human loss suffered at the hands of warlords, local and alien. Population shrank, marshes and forests waxed, towns waned. Abandoning hope of a good life in this world, people put all their hopes in a future life and the vision of pie in the sky somehow helped them to stand the deprivation of pepper on the earth.