What are some medieval African inventions?

Answer 1

The list of medieval inventions is long and impressive. Here are some:

• the horse collar, horseshoe, and heavy plow, which produce a huge increase in agricultural production
• the wine press, which eventually evolved into a variety of other presses including the printing press
• the rib vault, which lead to Gothic architecture
• a number of different types of cranes for different purposes
• the wheelbarrow
• oil paint
• the hour glass
• at least two different kinds of clocks
• the blast furnace
• paper mills
• windmills
• tidal mills
• rolling mills
• water hammers
• at least two different kinds of compasses
• the stern mounted rudder
• movable type
• printing press
• rag content paper, without which the printing press would be useless
• Arabic numerals
• universities
• functional buttons, as opposed to purely decorative
• silk
• spinning wheels
• grindstones
• distilling of liquor
• mirrors
• magnets
• rat traps
• soap, which was very important to the medieval people because they believed cleanliness was next to godliness (perfume became a necessity in the Renaissance)
• plate armor
• arched saddles
• stirrups
• spurs
• gunpowder
• cannons
• trebuchets
• massed Archery with longbows
• steel crossbows
• combining massed archers with dismounted knights which were very difficult to defeat until the Renaissance.
• chimney and fireplace (Romans built fires in braziers and vented smoke out windows)

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Answer 2

the use of iron tools, also discovery of irrigation systems

Answer 3

I do not know what they are, I just deleted the last answer because it was not useful in anway way it was that the invented the Mali Empire.