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holdings. Charlemagne demanded that less prosperous freemen
merge their private farms to equip a single knight for the wars.
The pressure of the new war technology gradually developed
classes and an economic system that could provide numerous
cavaliers in heavy armor. By about the year 1000 A.D. the old
word miles had changed from “soldier” to “knight.”
Lynn White has much to say, also, about horseshoes and
horsecollars as revolutionary technology that increased the
power and extended the range and speed of human action in
the early Middle Ages. He is sensitive to the psychic and social
implications of each technological extension of man, showing
how the heavy wheel-plow brought about a new order in the
field system, as well as in the diet of that age. “The Middle Ages
were literally full of beans.”