Middle Age Technology
Invention that made farming easier.
What is the heavy wheeled plow.
Location of watermills.
What is a source of water.
Purpose of the battering Rams
What is batter down, punch down castle walls and doors.
Purpose of the Ballista
What is a missile launcher.
Skilled worker needed to build siege weapons.
What is a carpenter.
Technology that enabled users to change wool into yarn.
What is the spinning wheel.
One who works at mill.
What is a miller
Most important part.
What is a heavy log or ram.
A ballista is sometimes called this.
What is a large crossbow.
Name of specialized siege engine constructed to protect attackers while approaching the castle wall in order to enter the castle.
What is a siege tower.
The mechanized process of this invention allowed information to be mass produced.
What is the printing press?
Purpose of watermill.
What is to grind, cut, or flatten. (1)
The roof of this device was usually covered with animal skins for what purpose?
What is protection from stones and other materials that are being dropped from the castle.
It is the difference between a crossbow and a ballista.
What is size.
This weapon is big and heavy and considered one of the most effective siege weapons.
What is a battering ram.
This timely invention was improved with a coil. Earlier timely inventions used water and rusted.
What is the mechanical clock.
Mill driven by the rise and fall of tides.
What is a tidal mill.
The operators of battering ram positioned it this weapon, then...
What is swinging the ram back and forth against the besieged structure.
Original inventor of the Ballista.
Who were the Ancient Greeks.
Location of building siege weapons.
What is outside the castle, manor, or village they planned to attack.
This German craftsman and inventor greatly improved upon an earlier Chinese invention. Improvements included reusable type and ink.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg.
The watermill was an important invention. (because)
What is the first type of power harnessed by man that was not generated by animals or humans.
This improvement to the battering ram helped operators improve speed of force of the battering ram.
What are wheels.
Distance ballista could launch an object.
What is 500 yards or the length of five football fields.
Name of four Middle Age siege weapons.
What is a Ballista, battering ram, catapult, siege tower, trebuchet, crossbow, rocks, flaming arrows