Landes Invention

Question 1

5 important inventions from Middle Ages

Answer 1

• water wheel
• eyeglasses
• mechanical clock
• printing
• gunpowder

Question 2

4 reasons of european innovation

Answer 2

1. judeao-christian respect for manual labour: noah’s archh
2. judeao-christian subordination of nature to man: no one listened to pagans
3. judeao-christian sense of linear time: progressive view
4. free market, free interprise