medival technology

Many inventions of medieval times have no known inventors. Many of these inventors were not famous, or well known, just people trying to improve their tasks in many small ways or occasionally large ones. Alot of the inventors may not have found the developments either logical or inevitable. For example, the American Tepee. One person decided they needed mobile shelter and came up with the idea of a frame of wood around which animal skins were wrapped around. As simple and easy as this may sound, all of the skills of cutting wood, may have come to place when building early huts.



In Roman military tradition, cavalry to be exact, is combat on horseback. It played a very important role to help with infantry. It was to carry out flanking movements on the battlefield, and to persue the enemy in fight. On the back of these horses were mounted knights, their armor weighed at 60 pounds or more. The cavalry was the primary function within the military. Only slowly, from the seventh and eighth centuries, did the role of cavalry become well known.


A castle was a self-contained, fortified household in which several, hundreds, or thousands lived and worked. Europe's earlier castle consisted of an outer wall surrounded by a moat filled with water under a retractable drawbridge which could be lifted for security and lowered for entrances and exits. Within the walls was a Bailey, a fortified enclosure or space inside the outermost castle walls often enclosing a motte, or an artificial mound.

The technology of mills and milling has been fundamental to civilization. Grains were first grown as crops in the ancient Near East, but even before then it is likely that people had learned to grind grain to make flour for baking. Millstones were a part of everyday life in most of the medieval world. Grain, nuts, and other foods were placed on stones, and other large stones were used to grind the food. This basic form of milling was practiced in the Americas; throughout Asia, including the Near East; Africa; and Oceania during the medieval era. It was convenient for families to be able to grind their own grain in their home, even though it was a labor-intensive process.

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