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 More options Feb 23 2012, 12:08 am
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From: "Tronscend" <tronf...@frizurf.no>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:08:20 +0100
Local: Thurs, Feb 23 2012 12:08 am
Subject: Re: What did the MA achieve?
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"Erilar" <dra...@chibardun.netinvalid> skrev i melding
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> "Tronscend" <tronf...@frizurf.no> wrote:
>> Good Ladies and Sirs,

>> Spurred by a Milman question ....

>> Positing the MA as a historical "black box"
>> (Input/output known, "computation" not known)
>> what are the differences one can in a quick bonmot
>> at a cocktail party, describe as the outcome of the MA
>> when benchmarking at 525/fall of all antiquity,
>> compared to emerging Europe in 1492/1521?

>> IOW, what are the MA's in one sentence?

> Anything about the period that could be crammed into a single sentence,
> even a long academic German one, is going to be too superficial to be
> worth
> composing.

I could always go for something more extended.

- What has the Middle Ages ever done for us?

- Water power?

- Yes, obviously, of course, water power.
But apart from that, what has the Middle Ages ever done for us?`

- Windmills?

- Horse harnesses?


 
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