ENVS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Horse Collar, Human Power, Stirrup
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The birth of modern science/ abstraction of nature. Our worldview ->modernity is a construct built some 500 yrs ago. What is the changing role of technology as a contributor to the rise of the. Human power was the most important kind of power. Not dealing with high levels of technology: the beginnings of modern technology: improving the harnessing of natural energy use. The horse: the beginning of harnessing power in a more effective way. Medieval knights were some of the first to harness the power of the stirrup during battle (b/c they could stay on and use them longer). Armor was developed b/c the horses could now be used as a war vehicle. As a result feudalism is created and ordered around. Water & wind: ex. the syrian watermill (used the flow of water to turn the wheel that is grinding wheat, etc. ). Windmills: used in a similar manner, especially to grind grains.