Historical Tech Path?

that is a very big question! it differs for every civilisation in history, but as the RoM Tech Tree is Indo-European Centered i would assume it would progress quite naturally for a western civ, assuming you dont rush for a religion or certain tech.

Do you just mean the very start techs or are you actually asking for the complete order of dicovered technolagies in history?
 
cheesemijit said:
Do you just mean the very start techs or are you actually asking for the complete order of dicovered technolagies in history?
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I am asking in the order they were first discovered. Not to any one civilization but the first to discover it on Earth.

And yes I mean to write out every tech from RoM in its chronological order.
 
Than compile an alphabetical list of them, post them here and than people will read it and provide input on what tech was invented where, when and by who.
 
Yeah great idea. Maybe the tech tree can get more historical authencity by that, uncovering flaws.

Might be funny about the transhuman techs. We could make guesses, or we could quote the sci-fi authors and the year they first described these future techs.
 
I think different civilisations developped in different ways : ie : England had longbowmen before France, but France had crossbowmen before England.

So you'd have to put up a historical tech path for every single civilisation. Would give a fun game having to respect the order regardless of startpos. And probably a short one...
 
Humakty said:
I think different civilisations developped in different ways : ie : England had longbowmen before France, but France had crossbowmen before England.

So you'd have to put up a historical tech path for every single civilisation. Would give a fun game having to respect the order regardless of startpos. And probably a short one...
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That's not what I am asking. It would be which was invented first the longbow or the crossbow? If the longbow then that would be researched before the crossbow no matter if France discovered it later.
 
Hydromancerx said:
That's not what I am asking. It would be which was invented first the longbow or the crossbow? If the longbow then that would be researched before the crossbow no matter if France discovered it later.
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Stricly technicly speaking the Longbow.
Wikipedia said:
Traditional longbows are self bows, made from a single natural piece of wood. They have been used for thousands of years, for hunting and warfare by, among others, Nubians, Kurds, Arabs[3], Native American tribes such as the Cherokee, South American tribes like the Barí, Indians at the time of Alexander,[4] African tribes such as the Bassa, and Europeans since Mesolithic times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longbow#History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_bow
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Earliest Crossbow was 5th Century BCE
EDIT: I'm going to list them by column
 
Ancient Era
Classical
Medieval
Renaissance
Industrial
Modern
Transhuman
Column 1
Fishing
Weaving
Hunting
Ritualism
Stone Tools
The Wheel

Column 2
Sailing
Pottery
Animal Husbandry
Archery
Slavery
Mysticism
Naturopathy
Mining

Column 3
Naval Warfare
Trade
Elephant Riding
Sacrifice Cult
Priesthood
Polytheism
Ceremonial Burial
Masonry
Metal Casting
Chariotry

Column 4
Seafaring
Fermentation
Writing
Dualism
Caste System
Monotheism
Sculpture
Bronze Working
Horseback Riding


Column 5
Ship Building
Alphabet
Mathematics
Currency
Monarchy
Meditation
Military Training
Glass Blowing

That's a start, someone else can do more
 
As pointed out before, the longbow has been around for thousands of years, but to use one effectively as a long range armor-piercing weapon of war requires years of very intensive training. The reason the English were able to use longbows in war so effectively before other countries was they had a social system where the yeoman class was required to train with the longbow on a regular basis, essentially having professional weapon specialists in a time when the only professional soldiers held archers in disdain and foot soldiers were almost always quickly trained in simpler weapons after being forced into military service.

It wasn't a weapons tech that allowed the English longbowmen, it was a social development.
 
I think for the early techs it shouldn't be when it was first invented, but when it was put into widespread use. For example, if you were talking about the crossbow you would only list it when crossbows started to have a large enough impact on warfare.
 
 
Ancient Era
Classical
Medieval
Renaissance
Industrial
Modern
Transhuman
Column 1
Fishing: at least 10,000BCE
Weaving: 5,000BCE (or earlier)
Hunting: Spears were used 14,200 BCE, the activity of hunting is probably well over half a million years old
Ritualism: what are we trying to represent here?
Stone Tools: 10,000BCE+
The Wheel: 4,000BCE

Column 2
Sailing: ~5,000BCE
Pottery: ~6,000 BCE (potters wheel)
Animal Husbandry: ~8,000BCE
Archery: ~8,000 BCE
Slavery:
Mysticism
Naturopathy
Mining 6,000BCE

Column 3
Naval Warfare
Trade
Elephant Riding
Sacrifice Cult
Priesthood
Polytheism
Ceremonial Burial
Masonry
Metal Casting
Chariotry

Column 4
Seafaring
Fermentation
Writing
Dualism
Caste System
Monotheism
Sculpture
Bronze Working
Horseback Riding


Column 5
Ship Building
Alphabet
Mathematics
Currency
Monarchy
Meditation
Military Training
Glass Blowing

meh
 
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