Should western Europe economic boom during the medieval era be represented?

[Denkt]

I read that the divergence between western europé and the rest of the World may have started as early as about 1200-1300 which is high medieval. GDP per capita in PPP in western europé between 1000-1500 in western europé seems to increased by about 50% which meant these areas went from rather poor to well beyond Roman levels of productivity, even Italy was significant richer during 1500 than it had been during the peak of Roman economy which is interesting since the empire was heavily biased towards benefiting Italy above everyone else.

Also Another interesting thing is that other areas during the time period did not see that much economic growth as western Europé saw.

Less sure about what caused this massive economic development in these areas but development of trade routes, creative and Heavy useage of machinery such as waterpower, development of agriculture and maybe even black Death which made workers more valuable helped to develop the economy.

 

[zafarnama]

Less sure about what caused this massive economic development in these areas but development of trade routes, creative and Heavy useage of machinery such as waterpower, development of agriculture and maybe even black Death which made workers more valuable helped to develop the economy.

I would be fine with seeing such an economic boom appear in the game so as long as it wasn't railroaded. The labour scarcity owing to the Black Death would have indeed incentivised labour saving technologies and would have diminished the power of the land owning (rent-seeking aristocracy) in favour of the burghers and other nascent mercantile and proto-capitalist elements of societies at the time.

However in my opinion, without commodity markets representing goods including labour (via a pops system), these phenomena would not be done proper justice.