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Who had a higher standard of living, peasants in the Roman Empire, or peasants during the High Medie

• arclein

All of this increased productivity and also makes the lifes of peasants more comfortable and cheaper. Water mills were already known to the Romans, but they were not widespread, widespread adoption happened during the medieval times and not only that those high medieval europeans invented ( vertical ) wind-mills, harnessing the industrial power of water and wind to process grain.