Middle Ages
- 800 – The streets of Baghdad are paved with tar.
- Late 9th century – Kamal invented in India.
- 1044 – Compass invented in China
- 13th century (or before) – Rocket invented in Afghanistan.
- 1350 – Compass dial invented by Ibn al-Shatir.
- late 15th century - European sailing ships become advanced enough to reliably cross oceans.
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Famous quotes containing the words middle ages, middle and/or ages:
“Of all the barbarous middle ages, that
Which is most barbarous is the middle age
Of man! it is—I really scarce know what;
But when we hover between fool and sage,
And don’t know justly what we would be at—
A period something like a printed page,
Black letter upon foolscap, while our hair
Grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)
“Nothing ages a woman like living in the country.”
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