The imrpoved agricultural techniques, such as the three field system, the climate change, and the horse plows. These effected Western Europe during the middle ages because the three field system produced better crops, the climate opened more land to farming, and the horse plows allowed faster harvesting. This made life a lot easier for farmers.
They wewre called the serfs/pesants.
South Asia, Australia, Europe, the Americas.
Plymouth had much better living conditions because it could focus on agriculture and growth instead of hunting and whaling and similar things. People in Plymouth were much safer and their lives were easier. Also, Plymouth became important later for the ideas of abolitionists making it important for the civil war as an idea in the long run.