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Europe

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Europe
Location of Europe
Largest cityMoscow
Area
• Total
10,180,000 km²
Population
• 2018 estimate
746,419,440


Europe is a continent that is separated from Asia by the Ural and Caucasus Mountains. It is the sixth largest continent and the third most populated.[1]

History[edit | edit source]

Between 1348 and 1350, the Black Death killed 30–60% of the European population, creating a labour shortage that weakened feudalism and began the rise of wage labour.[2]

Geography[edit | edit source]

Europe has a 37,000 km coastline and is surrounded by the Baltic, Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Black Seas. It has numerous navigable rivers such as the Volga, Rhine, Danube, and Seine. The North European Plain is an open expanse stretching from Paris to Moscow.[3]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. World Population Prospects (2019). United Nations.
  2. "Celebrating Shakespeare: a Marxist-Leninist perspective" (2016-06-01). Proletarian. Archived from the original on 2023-02-08.
  3. Neil Faulkner (2013). A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals: 'European Feudalism' (pp. 77–78). [PDF] Pluto Press. ISBN 9781849648639 [LG]