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

It was horse drawn you nob

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

http://www.humanist.de/rome/rts/agriculture.html

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

Not for PLOWING

we are talking about the Farming techniques that exploded in innovation after the Roman empire fell

Damn that's some trivia level stuff.

And how more food was produced in that timeframe after