Re:Epistemic standards for “Why did it take so long to inven...
by paganel on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:38AM
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Watermills were also on an evolutionary path (so to speak) in the early Middle Ages. From the dedicated wiki page [1]:
> Largely unaffected from the turbulent political events following the demise of the Western Roman Empire, the importance of watermilling continued to grow under the new Germanic lords. (...) By Carolingian times, references to watermills in the Frankish Realm had become "innumerable".
> Largely unaffected from the turbulent political events following the demise of the Western Roman Empire, the importance of watermilling continued to grow under the new Germanic lords. (...) By Carolingian times, references to watermills in the Frankish Realm had become "innumerable".
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_early_medieval_watermi...