Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to send a human being over 100km above the surface of the Earth, and return them safely to the ground, before December 31, 1899.
The Middle Ages saw significant technological development, arguably more so than under the Roman Empire.I mean, if any pre-December 31, 1899 POD is allowed, we could just have a POD that cancels out large eras of almost no technological development like the Middle Ages, and get the space technology that we have today way earlier tbh
I mean, if any pre-December 31, 1899 POD is allowed, we could just have a POD that cancels out large eras of almost no technological development like the Middle Ages, and get the space technology that we have today way earlier tbh
I mean, if any pre-December 31, 1899 POD is allowed, we could just have a POD that cancels out large eras of almost no technological development like the Middle Ages, and get the space technology that we have today way earlier tbh
While there was a certain stagnation, it tends to be really overestimated (and conflated to regression) due to lack of remaining contemporary sources and interest on the Early MA while materially-wise, we're rather in a period of structural continuation with slow adoption of new features, and eventually considering the really troubled late IXth and Xth as representative of the whole period, which they were not.However the period 500-1000 AD certainly did see stagnation or regression
While there was a certain stagnation, it tends to be really overestimated (and conflated to regression) due to lack of remaining contemporary sources and interest on the Early MA while materially-wise, we're rather in a period of structural continuation with slow adoption of new features, and eventually considering the really troubled late IXth and Xth as representative of the whole period, which they were not.
Which have nothing to do with technology and scientific conceptions, which we were arguing there. Let's not conflate a known social-economical decline, relatively to the late Imperial period, with "technological regression"cattle became smaller
This is particularily debatable. First, most written sources weren't kept (I'm thinking, for exemple, of Merovingian administrative texts we know existed, but didn't found). Not only litteracy in Western Romania was essentially a upper and middle class thing, but if anything we know that monastic and episcopalian schools and teaching (for all limited they were compared to later medieval teachings) went beyond the traditional elites for their audience.literacy declined
Western Romania was essentially rural already : you did had some urban contraction (altough far from what was believed some decade ago, confusing use of different materials with agriculturisation of cities) but that's a IIIrd century thing that not only stabilized by the Vth, but even went the other direction in some areas in the VIIth.populations became more rural
Not so much a regression than a use of non-monumental materials, or non-lasting material such as wood. Which, again, is a feature of Late Empire rather than Early medieval period strictly speaking. It's rather limited tough, the big problem being we have few remaining examples of early medieval monuments due to reuse or demolitions. Of course, the icing on the cake of most arguments there is about the roman concrete, even if it was barely used and essentially in Italy to begin with.architecture regressed
The changes from Carolingian era on this regard are now known to have been overblown, with significant examples of previous use in the VIIth century.even some agricultural techniques were lost in some areas..
No middle ages outside europe.I mean, if any pre-December 31, 1899 POD is allowed, we could just have a POD that cancels out large eras of almost no technological development like the Middle Ages, and get the space technology that we have today way earlier tbh
It's more complicated than that, this is the era that saw two enormously influential technological innovations being adopted -the stirrup and the nailed horseshoe. Part of the reason for the deterioration of the Roman roads during the period is that this old technology was no longer militarily as necessary as hitherto. Just as a Victorian looking at our era might argue that we are a society in decline because we don't erect as solid stone and brick built buildings (we have developed stressed steel and wood frame construction), have got rid of our telegraphy networks (internet and cellphones instead) and have let our railroads decay (cars, trucks and aircraft)However the period 500-1000 AD certainly did see stagnation or regression