Medieval Stasis is a situation in which, as far as the technological, cultural, and sociopolitical level are concerned, thousands of years pass as if they were minutes. You fast forward about five thousand years and reveal a world… exactly like the one you started in! Same kinds of tools and devices, same form of government, same language, same culture-you wouldn't even need to dress differently to fit right in. So, you have a Heroic Fantasy with a long history in order to account for the fact that the Sealed Evil in a Can has been forgotten. Sufjan Stevens, "The World's Columbian Exposition"
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