WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The most important technical innovation for agriculture in the Middle Ages was the widespread adoption around 1000 of the mouldboard plow and its close relative, the heavy plow. These two plows enabled medieval farmers to exploit the fertile but heavy clay soils of northern Europe.

Detailed explanation-2: -The early medieval ‘agricultural revolution’ saw the advent of new, extensive forms of cereal farming that enabled landowners to amass wealth by exploiting the labour of others and supported the exceptionally rapid growth of towns, markets and populations.

Detailed explanation-3: -The period saw major technological advances, including the adoption of gunpowder, the invention of vertical windmills, spectacles, mechanical clocks, and greatly improved water mills, building techniques (Gothic architecture, medieval castles), and agriculture in general (three-field crop rotation).

Detailed explanation-4: -A number of very important inventions were made in medieval times such as the Spinning Wheel, Stirrups, Astrolabe, Eyeglasses, Compass, Tidal Mills, Gunpowder and Printing Press.