Tag: Waterwheel

Why the West Progressed in Ways No One Else Had

May 29, 2014

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by

mwkruse

in Capitalism and Markets, China, Economic Development, Europe, Great Divergence, History, Human Progress, Religion, Technology

I just read Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages by Frances & Joseph Gies. The book focuses on technological development during the 1,000 years from 500-1500 C.E. The Middle Ages was once cast as an age of regression from the golden age of Greece and Rome until the Renaissance and…