 Complete the following phrase:  In Europe, the decade continued the period of gradual economic decline, often mistitled the depression of the 1340s. This followed the end of the Medieval Warm Period and the start of the Little Ice Age in the 1300s, and affected most of Western Europe, with the exception of a few Italian city-states. The state increasingly interfered in the social and economic life of the decade, while Europe entered a period which saw almost continuous war for the next century. The Hundred Years War 13371453 between France and England continued, and Edward III of England led an invasion resulting in notable victories at the Battles of Sluys and 