In 1456 Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press. Before the printing press, books were written by hand, usually by monks. This took enormous amounts of time and money. Very few people at the time could read because the price of books were so high. Once the printing press came around, however, the rate of book making went up and the cost went down. The first book to be printed was a bible. T

The medieval time period played a large role in social evolution. Without the inventions and discoveries of the Middle Ages, today's technology would not be nearly as advanced as it is. Science would still be based on the Church's ideas and ideals, travel and transportation would be slower, agriculture would be harder, architecture wouldn't be as diverse as it has been throughout time. Even the simple invention of linen undergarments allowed people to design more comfortable and suiting clothes and fabric.

The agricultural world also had its contributions to the list of medieval inventions. Heavier plows with wheels, horizontal plowshares, and a moldboard were invented, which cut down on manual labor. Three-field crop rotation was invented, moving many farmers to drop the idea of small, individual farming plots and take in the idea of communal patterns of open-field agriculture (social and political evolution aided these changes as well). During the 13th and 14th century, with advances in agricultural evolution, the invention of the spinning wheel came. The

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