What technical inventions and scientific discoveries appeared in Europe as a result of the Crusades?
| October 31, 2020 | Education
The Europeans adopted from the Saracens a saber made of flexible steel (before they knew how to forge only heavy swords – it was hard to fence with them), a crossbow, powder mines (there were no guns until the XIV century), skills of chemistry (alchemy), Arabic numerals.
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