How were Europeans behind techologically (Medieval Time period)?
Hi Theresa, I’ve read your question and I’ve read your “additional details.” You may “only be doing what your teacher told you,” but, you know, you can disagree with your teacher. You can think for yourself. It always amazes me the number of people who, when asked questions about the middle ages, will talk about how the Church supposedly stiffled learning and only in the Enlightenment did people start to think for themselves. The irony is that *they* are not thinking for *themselves*, only parroting the party line of a bunch of dead white men like Petrarch (who coined the term “Dark Ages”) and Edward Gibbons (who coined the term “fall of the Roman Empire”). I agree with most of what the others have said above. The Europeans of the Middle Ages were not, in fact, behind technologically. In many important ways they were ahead. Without the technological advances of the middle ages, the Europeans would not have been able to claim world dominance during the Age of Exploration. These things d
