西欧中世纪早期的经济形态是以农业为基础的自给自足的自然经济。随着历史的进步,西欧的商业开始发展起来。中世纪早期的商业发展在社会发展过程中具有两重性,一方面有利于封建制度的巩固,另一方面,又在瓦解着自然经济,而它的继续发展则为封建制度的崩溃和资本主义的发展奠定了基础。 The economic patterns of Western Europe in the early Middle Ages were self-sufficient natural economy based on agriculture. As history has advanced, business in Western Europe started to develop. The commercial development in the early Middle Ages was characterized by duality in the process of social development. On the one hand, it favors the consolidation of the feudal system and on the other hand, it disrupts the natural economy. Its continued development has laid the foundation for the collapse of feudalism and the development of capitalism The foundation.