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But the church and the clergy moreso didnt release much of their work until post dark ages
During that period food was more abundant than during the Roman Period
Wrong
Are you illiterate
stahp <:pepe_why:378719408367075333>
The roman empire began the collapse due to shortages on food and cropping of disease. Europe went through a cold spell
Farming techniques and innovation skyrocketed after the fall of the Roman Empire
The viking raids for instance were due to this cold spell
The 3 cycle cropping
The aquaducts were dismantled for housing. How is that innovations?
the invention of a plow to be pulled by horses
The invention of the water mill
The aqueducts were an extravagance of the Urban
No point in having water go to a big city, when you can send it all to the farms along the way
The romans invented the horse drawn plaugh you nob
By the Han period, the entire ploughshare was made of cast iron; these are the first known heavy mouldboard iron ploughs. The Romans achieved the heavy wheeled mouldboard plough in the late 3rd and 4th century AD, when archaeological evidence appears, inter alia, in Roman Britain
It took wealth and centralized it in the cities
WRONG
wow, I didn't realize how much Pinker is a lying sack of shit
Key word here is HORSE drawn
When was the fall of the Roman empire
mid 500s
It was not until the 900s that the Horse collar, horse shoe and plow were found
before that it was done by oxen
Sorry technicality they were oxen drawn but same bloody concept
No it is not
Horses could pull as much weight
but at twice the speed
But oxen didnt need the harnes
Harnes?
Harness
ahhhh
What up homies
it was a slower method
and it allowed the farmer more time
With the preference for oxen as engine of ploughing there was no real need to construct a harness system which would allow the horse to pull a plough. The major problem with using either the dorsal yoke or the neck yoke to harness an equid to a plough is really the point of attachment. In wagons and carts the point of attachment was reasonably far off the ground, whereas for ploughs it is almost at ground level.
Also romans had horse drawn carts they already had a form of harness
And the horse was an improvement