The year 1410

In the year of our Lord 1410 we in my country were positively Medieval, literally: think Blackadder, turnip soup and muddy roads with cattle carts on. The year of Mohammed 1410 was only a decade or so ago, bear this in mind as you hear this story told to me by a colleague from here. He is the aforementioned one educated outside of this country, he had the good fortune to visit my continent during this time and recounted to me a story of visiting a museum. A woman was showing him and his fellow compatriots from here some of the history of her country, she came to a glass cabinet with a heavy round grind stone in. She pointed out that it was dated to the fourteen hundreds when her people used to grind the wheat into flour using this grinding technique. My colleague began to chuckle, he noted to her that in 1410 in his country they also used the grind stone to mill their flour. His compatriots laughed at the joke, needless to say she didn't get it, didn't get that it was 1410 in his country at that present time and although a modern era by most international standards his country was indeed still in the dark ages and still using hand tools for grinding flour.