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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 1904942" data-attributes="member: 24969">Well, 500 codexes is no Library of Alexandria. They wrote aobut similar things that Egyptian kingdoms of thousands of years before because that's the level they were at. It's not that a written language is an instant ticket to technology but anything that helps generate and preserve information aids in the development of a society. Sure most of it is just record keeping. I bet most of our information generated today is mostly record keeping with financial data far outpacing technical data.Sure there were inventions in the middle ages but it was not a time known for great advances in science. The heavy plow was a combination of devices, some of which like the moldboard were around since Roman times. I don't think it really spread like wildfire and didn't even spread until Northern Europe reached a level of development where it was useful to them. Had they not been dark ages, then there would have been much more advancements than there were.It would be interesting to see what would have helped native Americans the most. If they could have been given either better crops, pack animals, or a written language soemtime in the distant past, which would have allowed them to advance the quickest. certainly domesticated animals or crops are the easiest to sustain as written language probably requires a certian level of advancement before it is deemed useful enough to maintain. However, I think that the written language allows for a greater level than better crops. Still, increasing crops increases the population which also allows for a greater generation of information over a long period of time.</blockquote>

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