Simple technological improvements for the Bronze Age?

The scientific method IS simple, and unlocking it early makes a bunch of other tech and concepts available earlier, because the people in society with spare time will now be investigating hypotheses with empirical tests rather than thought experiments. Vaccines could of been invented in the stone age
 
Well there was some iron (and steel, because the smelting iron does create some) working here and there during the period, it just wasn't generalized
 
The scientific method IS simple, and unlocking it early makes a bunch of other tech and concepts available earlier, because the people in society with spare time will now be investigating hypotheses with empirical tests rather than thought experiments. Vaccines could of been invented in the stone age

The Scientific Method, at least as I see it, fails to meet a definition of "technology", but yah right vaccines could be invented in the Stone Age or an evolutionary or germ theory that bares any semblance to reality show up in a world with the surronding Bronze Age information transmission infrastructure/availability of knowledge and the tools for data gathering. Maybe you could get customs the mythology that encourage some similar practices (such as hand washing) but its liable to stay localized, stubbled into on blind luck, and without an underlying understanding of the mechanics you can't build off what useful stuff you do get. There isen't the institutional frameworks on the ground to get much philosophically standardized anything in the Bronze age
 
Maybe not anyone’s top ten but knitting wasn’t invented until about 900 AD.
I've seen the claim that the ancient Egyptians were responsible for the first knitted socks, but it seems there is both
the matter of definition and the difficulty of proving that some archaeological find is knitted rather than produced using
some other technique with a visually similar result.
 
My suggestion would be the spinning wheel. It sped up the process of turning fiber into thread and since the invention of the wheel was in the early Bronze Age, it is at least possible.
 
Well, in order to have roads you must have :
-A centralized State.
-Various Urban Centres.
-Relative political
The scientific method IS simple, and unlocking it early makes a bunch of other tech and concepts available earlier, because the people in society with spare time will now be investigating hypotheses with empirical tests rather than thought experiments. Vaccines could of been invented in the stone age
It isn't because you can understand simply that you can discover it simply, the conditions that enabled the promotion of scientific method are related the particular context of Rennaissance and the invention of printing press, without this, I don't think we could see any scientific method for a while, not mentioning that the best candidate to it (aka Egypt) has a very mystic way of apprehending science.
P-S: For vaccine to be created, you need people to srart thinking seriously that diseases aren't some good punishment but something natural.
 
anesthetic, vaccines, antibiotics, evolutionary theory,
How does evolutionary theory contribute to the improvement of the technology level ? Because in OTL, when Darwin published his book, rifles, bombs and cannons were already here, and church had long sincs lost any type of power, unless you are taking à la Copernic, as a mean of starting a cultural revolution.
 
The best chance for an early scientific method is the post Alexandrian Hellenistic world, and even then itd just be one philosophy among many, although it might have more staying power than most.
 
In OTL the watermill was developed considerably earlier than the windmill - so perhaps Bronze Age watermills?

Quite possibly. I could see it developing out of the flood control efforts of Egypt or the Indus without too much of a strech, given they're trying to channel water in a useful way anyways.
 
Scientific method is not a technological development, people. I am talking about devices, like horse collars, water wheels, windmills, stirrups, ploughs, screws, etc.
 
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