Distinctly medieval technologies

[Kyriakos]

I am planning to create some medieval tech icons, but i am not sure which techs are characteristically medieval. Any ideas?

For the time being i only made a generic "distribution" tech, which desperately needs renaming as well:

Perhaps i could try a Greek fire one, although it might be hard to model the apparatus.

The techs can be from either Europe, Africa or Asia (since i only have created buildings from those continents).

Edit: This is one i am now working on, something about Japanese castle-making:

 

[civ_king]

Clocks, spectacles, compass, horseshoes, horse collar, plate armour are mediaeval techs

 

[Kyriakos]

Thanks for the ideas, the clock-tower in particular is something i can make.

 

[Ajidica]

The Astrolabe and rudder?

 

[sophie]

Depends on what you mean by medieval.

 

[Kyriakos]

Anything from the end of the classical era, and before the age of discovery.

 

[sophie]

Anything from the end of the classical era, and before the age of discovery.

What do any of these terms mean. Give me some dates and some parts of the world. Periodization is rather important to history, you know.

 

[Kyriakos]

5th century to late 15th century Europe, northern Africa and East Asia.

 

[civ_king]

So no Middle East or South Asia?

 

[Masada]

Or Southeast Asia?

 

[Hornblower]

The fulling (wool processing) watermill?
The blast furnace?

 

[GoodGame]

Rediscovery of concrete techniques of the Romans?

http://matse1.matse.illinois.edu/concrete/hist.html



Algebra? Astronomy?

 

[Kyriakos]

Middle east is in too

 

[Hornblower]

Damascus Steel ... or was that earlier?

 

[LightSpectra]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the most obvious one yet:

The book. (Though you could say that it's a 3rd/4th century invention, so it may not apply.)

 

[Verbose]

The Church organ, 12th c. abouts.

 

[Kyriakos]

Books could be done, i guess, although i have not tried modeling this sort of thing before.

This is supposed to be high Islamic architecture:

 

[Plotinus]

Gothic architecture.

Gunpowder.

Universities (in the European sense).

Mendicant orders.

Buttons.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the most obvious one yet:

The book. (Though you could say that it's a 3rd/4th century invention, so it may not apply.)

If you mean the codex, I believe the earliest are known from around the first century CE, although they didn't become more widespread until the time you mention. At any rate, an ancient invention, not a medieval one.

 

[LightSpectra]

But things aren't counted as technology until they're used in significant effect, and the codex didn't become so until the promulgation of the monastery. Otherwise we would say the steam engine is an ancient invention as opposed to an industrial one.

 

[Kyriakos]

Gothic architecture.

I could try that one, since in this scale it could look good

First i will utilize the buildings i already have made, so a Romanesque Architecture will appear soon.

And the Byzantine Architecture is probably finished: