01-25-2006, 09:58 PM
If you think about it though, the technology boom of the 20th and 19th centuries were all do to specific breakthroughs that allowed this leap in technology. With all the small, little, slow technological advances, they would never have gotten to the point where they split the atom or whatever (I lothe science).
Keep in mind that they did utilize gunpowder to the point where they may have in the 11th century on, but with out the knowhow to place mud and dirt along their walls so that cannonball merely get submerged in the mud rather than explode the stone walls.
Keep in mind that they did utilize gunpowder to the point where they may have in the 11th century on, but with out the knowhow to place mud and dirt along their walls so that cannonball merely get submerged in the mud rather than explode the stone walls.
