Did medieval people and people before them grasp technological advancement?

[Bornstarch]

When I was a kid in the 1980s, I thought we'd have flying cars, cure for cancer, etc..

I also thought there'd be wireless telephones with TV screens on the so you could see who you were talking to. But that has actually happened. I also thought we'd have TVs that we can watch any movie or TV show in history. That happened, to.

But 1000 years ago, people were born, lived and died seeing no technological improvement. Did they actually grasp the concept like we do?

They did the same things pretty much every single day while praying they weren't raided by bandits or get some kind of illness.

 

[lakersfan45]

No our current technology would makes us demons and they would burn us alive. Like if we brought a smartphone and started watching YouTube

 

[lakersfan45]

I doubt even think they’d recongnize a shaved muff

 

[GSP_37]

I think the scientists and inventors were killed by religious leaders who saw them as a threat to power.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

I doubt even think they’d recongnize a shaved muff

They marry kids back in the day...






And today in some circles.

Spoiler

67.5% of the Muslim women in the study were married as children, while the rest were married after the age of 18.

 

[lakersfan45]

They marry kids back in the day...






And today in some circles.

Spoiler

67.5% of the Muslim women in the study were married as children, while the rest were married after the age of 18.

Cmon man I was just making jokes this nec seearry is uninfirmataion

 

[europe1]

If you look at Medieval/Renaissance paintings depicting the ancient world they look not like ancient people but contemporaneous ones.

Take Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew, for instance. These Hebrews from Year 30 all look like Italianoids from the 16th century. Why? Because people from back then only had a vauge understanding of technological/cultural advancements. So when they imagined the past they imagined it as their own surroundings with only a few obvious exceptions like gunpowder and such.

The Calling of Saint Matthew - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Cmon man I was just making jokes this nec seearry is uninfirmataion

 

[tasteslikechicken]

OK... um...

 

[Bobby00]

No but plenty of people today dont grasp the technology behind the things we use. I dont truly understand how a camera works but i can use it.

 

[Blayt7hh]

I mean the Civilization games created the concept and I don’t think the first game came out until maybe the 1700s?

 

[pugilistico]

In ancient and medieval times, you could go to battle with the armor and weapons your dad or even your granddad used since things didn't change so much. Imagine taking your grandpa's M1 Garand to a modern battlefield now.

 

[jefferz]

In ancient and medieval times, you could go to battle with the armor and weapons your dad or even your granddad used since things didn't change so much. Imagine taking your grandpa's M1 Garand to a modern battlefield now.

We take grandpa's machine gun into the modern battlefield.

And his bomber.

 

[lsa]

going from the stone age to the medieval times was technological progress so yes.
It was just a slower pace.

Just go back +50 years and everybody thought we would have flying cars in 2024.
We still drive gas cars.

 

[Larzon]

This is the reason religion exists. "How's that work? I dunno God must have done it"

 

[wh4tttt]

From finding porn in the woods to porn on the phone has been a huge leap.

 

[Cole train]

I always found it crazy how tightly packed history is

Like this guys grandad met napoleon

 

[Domitian]

I think the scientists and inventors were killed by religious leaders who saw them as a threat to power.

This is mostly true up until about the Renassaince. Religious theocracies from the time of when Christianity became the dominant religion in Europe for about 1000 years this was basically what happened.

 

[Pizza Werewolf]

No but plenty of people today dont grasp the technology behind the things we use. I dont truly understand how a camera works but i can use it.

Yall are just ignorant though.Mainly the convenience of function.
Cameras have been around since the late 1800s. The end of Mideval times was 300 years prior.

Give them. Credit though they. Were figuring out other shit. Cameras were the least of their worried I'm sure between 500-1500 BC.

 

[Pizza Werewolf]

English grammar has been around for hundreds of years yet you still fail at basic grammar. No but really, cameras how do they work?

So you have nothing useful to contribute?
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