Windmill

Period

c. AD 900

Map

Inventions map

A windmill is a machine operated by the force of wind acting on vanes or sails to mill grain (gristmills). Windmills were used throughout the high medieval and early modern periods; the horizontal or panemone windmill first appeared in Persia during the 9th century, and the vertical windmill first appeared in northwestern Europe in the 12th century.

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Earlier and later events nearby

1. c. AD 30Rise of the Kushan Empire
2. AD 633–654Muslim conquest of Persia
3. AD 711–713Arab conquest of Sindh
4. c. AD 900WindmillThis page
5. 1037Founding of the Seljuk Empire
6. 1598Shah Abbas rebuilds Isfahan
7. 1885Panjdeh incident

Who ruled this land

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