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Historians differ in their opinions of when the Middle Ages began and ended, most sources define the Middle Ages as an historical period from 500 AD to 1450 AD. While there was a suppression of knowledge and learning, the Middle Ages was a period full of discovery and inventing.
1023
First paper money printed in China.
1045
Movable type printing by Bi Sheng in China
Circa 1050
Crossbow invented in France.
1182
Magnetic compass invented.
Circa 1200
Clothing buttons invented.
1202
The Hindu-Arabic numbering system introduced to the west by Italian mathematician, Fibonacci.
1249
Rodger Bacon invented his gunpowder formula.
Circa 1250
Gun invented in China.
Circa 1268 - 1289
Invention of eyeglasses.
Circa 1280
Mechanical clocks invented.
Circa 1285 - 1290
Windmills invented.
1295
Modern glassmaking begins in Italy.
1328
First sawmill.
1326
First mention of a handgun.
1366
Scales for weighing invented.
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