Examples like aquaducts, sewage, advanced architecture, etcetera
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To run counter to some of what’s in here; it’s not that Medieval people didn’t understand these things or lack the money.
They didn’t *need* them a lot of the time.
Social, political, and economic changes in the medieval produced a more distributed population. The largest medieval cities were located directly on water ways and didn’t need dedicated aquaducts or sewage until the early modern period when population booms blew the size of these cities up. Link London and Paris.
There were some aqueducts built in the Middle Ages btw. Many you’ll find in Spain which is drier and hotter. Some aqueducts used in the period were themselves roman and maintained so no one needed a new one.
And the exception here is architecture. Look at gothic cathedrals from the high Middle Ages and seriously say it’s not some advanced stuff. Castles built by medieval states were way more advanced than the forts of the Romans, but siege warfare had also evolved a lot in those centuries. Fortunes were spent on these structures and they’re no less complex a feat than anything built by the Greeks or the Romans in terms of design and execution.
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