Medieval Ages

Question 1

It was a kind of heavy plow important to medieval agriculture in Northern Europe

Answer 1

Carruca/And Plow

Question 2

Device of leather and metal, encircling a horse’s neck

Answer 2

Horse Collar/Horse shoes

Question 3

The successive cultivation of different crops in a specified order on the same fields, in contrast to a one-crop system or to a haphazard crop succession

Answer 3

Crop Rotation

Question 4

Most winemaking technology advances were made by religious orders who owned vast amounts of vineyard land and produced large quantities of wines in their abbeys and bishoprics

Answer 4

Wine Press

Question 5

Cathedral towers were providing the rest of the faithful with their first glimpse of a right proper ________

Answer 5

Mechanical Clock

Question 6

He designed the astronomical clock in Cathedral Tower in Padua 1344

Answer 6

Jacopo de Dondi

Question 7

It is used to measure the passage of time

- Frankish Monk Liutprand in 700’s

Answer 7

Hour Glass

Question 8

-converts the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails or blades

Answer 8

Milling

Question 9

Claudius Ptolemy: a _____ is a mathematical or an astronomical instrument featuring a graduated arc encompassing a quarter or a full circle or 90

Answer 9

Plinth (First Quadrant) Quadrant

Question 10

Usually use a magnetized needle or dial inside a capsule completely filled with a liquid

Answer 10

Magnetic Compass

Question 11

This vessel was fitted with a single mast and a square-rigged single sail

Answer 11

Cog Ship (Northern Europe)

Question 12

An optical instrument that helps in the observation of remote objects. It is first introduced by Galileo Galilei.

Answer 12

Telescope

Question 13

• it is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper and cloth), thereby transferring the ink
• in 1455, Johannes Gutenberg invented this

Answer 13

Printing Press

Question 14

Cai Lun invented _____ during Han Dynasty

Answer 14

Paper

Question 15

Special kind of bookmark used in Medieval Europe

Answer 15

Rotating Bookmark

Question 16

Identifying image or pattern in paper that appears as various shades of lightness/darkness when viewed by transmitted light, caused by thickness or density variations of paper

Answer 16

Watermark (1284 Italy)

Question 17

A common type of siege engine which uses a swing arm to throw a projectile

Answer 17

Counterweight Trebuchet

Question 18

Is a siege engine that is designed to break open the masonry walls of fortifications or splinter their wooden gates

Answer 18

Battering Ram

Question 19

A type of armor consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh

Answer 19

Chain Mail

Question 20

Is a historical type of personal body armor made from iron or steel plates

Answer 20

Plate Armor

Question 21

Invented by Zacharias Janssen on 1590

Answer 21

Microscope (Compound Microscope)