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What is used to drain water from land or grind corn in the Netherlands?
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Windmills. Learn to Dutch.
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What kind of breakfast in the Medieval Times?
Corn meal, oatmeal, ham, water, bread, ir nothing at all.
What do they use corn for in medieval times?
This is very obvious, they used corn for eating.
What is the importance of corn development of civilization in the western hemisphere?
Corn was developed by Mesoamerica and taken back to Europe by I think Vasco de Gamma - corn has been developed and can not survive without human intervention as the corn does not fall off the cob naturally and each must be removed manually and planted. Info from Bill Bryson My House book - very interesting and fall of facts of the obscure kind.
What crops were grown in the holy roman empire?
Corn.
What crops did the Western Plains grow?
corn and grain mostly
What were windmills used for in the middle ages?
Mostly, to grind corn. In the Netherlands they were even then already used for water management and for turning swamp land into dry land.
What do you grind corn for?
Grinding corn is the process by which you grind your teeth when you are peaking on ekkies
What were the chores of the hopi?
Collect water, grind corn, hunt, protect dwellings.
Do you get water from a mill?
No - water is used by mills - to grind corn, or power machinery. The water is supplied by a nearby stream or river.
How do you shell corn?
to grind up ears of corn
How do you make corn flour for tortilla chips?
1) Grow the corn. 2) Dry the corn. 3) Grind the corn into flour. Step 3 is obviously the tough one. If you are using a grindstone, or industrial equipment, you should remove the kernels from the corn before you grind it. If not, leave the kernels on, and run them up and down a stone surface to get a coarse grind, and use a mortar and pestle for a finer grind.
What machine starts with the letter q?
a quern is a simple machine that is used to grind corn. it has a lever which is used to grind corn.
When did wind turbines start?
With the ancients as 'windmills' to grind corn/wheat etc., and to drive up water.
Which country used wind energy first?
The Netherlands has used windmills for hundreds of years to pump water out of their low lying lands.Other countries used windmills to grind corn and wheat into flour.The Romans used windmills to pump water uphill into their aqueducts.netherlands or chinaIraq, about 6000 years agopakistan
Many tribes raised what to grind into flour?
A mano and matate were used by the Hopi to grind corn. A matate (or metate) is the large stone on which the grain is placed. A mano is a smaller stone tool (or rock) used to grind corn or other grains. It is rolled over the matate to break down the grains into a powder
Are windmills built so that engineers can control the flow of water?
....but in countries like The Netherlands which are partly below sea level, windmills are used to control the level of water.
Which energy resource has been used for thousands of years?
The wind has been used for thousands of years. Windmills were in use by the Romans and earlier to grind corn, pump water and even cut wood.
