Medieval Ages Flashcards
It was a kind of heavy plow important to medieval agriculture in Northern Europe
Carruca/And Plow
Device of leather and metal, encircling a horse’s neck
Horse Collar/Horse shoes
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
Crop Rotation
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
Wine Press
Cathedral towers were providing the rest of the faithful with their first glimpse of a right proper ________
Mechanical Clock
He designed the astronomical clock in Cathedral Tower in Padua 1344
Jacopo de Dondi
It is used to measure the passage of time
- Frankish Monk Liutprand in 700’s
Hour Glass
-converts the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails or blades
Milling
Claudius Ptolemy: a _____ is a mathematical or an astronomical instrument featuring a graduated arc encompassing a quarter or a full circle or 90
Plinth (First Quadrant) Quadrant
Usually use a magnetized needle or dial inside a capsule completely filled with a liquid
Magnetic Compass
This vessel was fitted with a single mast and a square-rigged single sail
Cog Ship (Northern Europe)
An optical instrument that helps in the observation of remote objects. It is first introduced by Galileo Galilei.
Telescope
- 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
Printing Press
Cai Lun invented _____ during Han Dynasty
Paper
Special kind of bookmark used in Medieval Europe
Rotating Bookmark