medieval people
This is a device to throw a projectile a great distance, the word comes from Latin Catapulta, which in turn come from the Greek language. The mechanism comes from Greece, about the lst Century BC
The exact first person ever to construct a catapult is unknown, however, the first civilisation to use the catapult was Rome, who designed catapults as siege weapons to aid in the expansion of its empire. The catapult was later adopted by other nationalities whowarred against each other.
The catapult was first used by the army of the Roman Empire. History does not record the name of the Roman engineer who first invented it.
The first catapult was built in 399 B.C. Didorous Siculus, a Greek historian wrote about this device that threw mechanical arrows.
catapults were used for war
thrid to first
Hizan made the first catapult to throw Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) {pbuh} into the fire after he destroyed his people's idols.
That the catapult can fire things over a long distance and we don't usually use the catapult in war any more, as they used to a long time ago.
The exact first person ever to construct a catapult is unknown, however, the first civilisation to use the catapult was Rome, who designed catapults as siege weapons to aid in the expansion of its empire. The catapult was later adopted by other nationalities whowarred against each other.
Yes, we have a giant catapult that we use to shoot stupid people into the middle of the ocean, we do it on St Andrews day every year and everyone in the country attends.
You use a catapult to launch things into the air.
The exact number of people it takes to make a medieval catapult. :-)
The catapult was first used by the army of the Roman Empire. History does not record the name of the Roman engineer who first invented it.
In war
Go to pictures of the catapult and click on the first caption that comes up.
339BC.
about 400 BC
400 bc