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Old 05-15-2012, 03:40 PM   #1
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Well if you build the mills, you can have the economic base to call it TL 3.
Both water and wind mills were around by the 1st century BC.
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Old 05-15-2012, 03:46 PM   #2
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Both water and wind mills were around by the 1st century BC.
Yes technologies often predate the point at which they become essential and mature.

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Old 05-16-2012, 08:16 AM   #3
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Both water and wind mills were around by the 1st century BC.
Which is TL2. Well into the Iron Age. Nothing to do with cutting large pieces of stone and wood without metal tools.
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