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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 3552796" data-attributes="member: 15538">That's true for adventurers, but not the general public. ... where the abstraction of gold pieces became reified as an abundance of coins.By strength in arms? Totally medieval. Substantial technological progress was made in the medieval era. Improvements in leaded glass, steel, architecture, riding gear, and ballistics all occured in the medieval era. The crossbow as invented and subsequently banned by the Church. And it was a time of huge advancements in the field of shoes (you pretty much went from fur slippers and sandals for about two thousand years to suddenly having sewn leather boots, wooden shoes, and the first hard-soled leather shoes).</blockquote>