Medieval Warfare

they weren't as powerful as a trebruchet

The earliest forms of shields were woven mats, in Persia and in China (bamboo). Chinese armor originally consisted of turtle shells, but became heavier layers of leather, and later bronze. A common design was a "coat" of overlapping leather or metal plates, to deflect cutting weapons. Between the 4th and 7th centuries, China acquired the familiar "chain mail" armor, made from interwoven metal links. This likely came from Persia.

In Europe, the oldest metal armor dates from about 1400 BC in Greece. Armored breastplates became common in the Roman Army, which used leather as well as bronze and other metals. This became the full-armor suits of the chivalric period, beginning in the 5th century concurrent with the fall of Rome. Heavy and complex designs were seen for ceremonial armor. (Chain mail, which required intricate metalworking, first appeared around 500 BC and became incorporated into some armor.) The legendary King Arthur and Camelot date from the 5th or 6th century AD. Armored knights took part in most of the major wars from 600 to 1700 AD, including the Spanish conquests in the Americas.

As the weapons designed to penetrate armor were improved, so was the armor. The medieval knights of England and France wore heavy metal suits and helmets, but by 1500 these had to deal with improved arrows and crossbows, and with the advent of hand cannons and muskets around the same time.

They did'nt "dress up in costume", the Yeoman of the Guard (to give them their proper name) wear a uniform based on that worn in the elizabethan era, and it has'nt changed significantly since then.

When it was new, it was a standard uniform for the day. Its no more costume than a moern soldier's uniform. It merely looks like costume to us because it now very old fashioned.

The main farming implement in the medieval period was the plough, which was made in various forms. During the 12th century in England, the mouldboard plough, which had an iron share and coulter to cut the soil and a wooden mouldboard that turned it aside, created distinctive ridges and furrows. Ploughs were drawn by oxen, often four but sometimes six depending on how heavy the soil was. One man handled the plough while another goaded the oxen and controlled their speed and direction.

Harrows were a large framework of timber arranged flat on the ground, with iron or wooden spikes that raked the soil and broke up lumps - this was often drawn by a horse since the harrow could go much quicker than a plough.

All other tools were hand tools that depended on the muscles of the man or woman.

Among the tools used in the medieval period were weeding sticks (one with a hook, the other forked), the mattock or hoe, the spade, the shovel, the bill or hedging hook, the rake and the threshing flail. Pruning knives, shears, axes, scythes, sickles and seedlips were also used (a seedlip is a linen container or basket with a strap for suspending it on the chest, filled with seed for sowing by hand).

One unusual agricultural tool was the sling, which was used by small children tasked with keeping birds away from newly-planted crops; the sling allowed them to hurl small stones ("slingshot") over a large area, not to kill birds but to scare them away. Scarecrows were not yet used.

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Bad weather. It is believed that typhoons destroyed most of the fleet sent to invade.

Chainmail is good because it's able to deflect blows from many weapons and block arrows. It was even better than Roman plate armour. At the Battle of Jaffa, many Arab witnesses said that Richard the Lionheart was a god on the battlefield because all their weapons were unable to penetrate his armour. Eventually, the Europeans began to develop weapons that were able to penetrate chainmail as if it were trading cards.

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A joiner was a person who did fine woodwork. A joiner differed from a carpenter because the carpenter did work that required nails, and the joiner did work where nails were not used, such as making fine furniture.

The toilet/latrine room adjacent to the main bedchamber (I think).

They were known simply as the Crusaders.

Siege of Dubrovnik happened in 1992.

Siege of Neuss happened on 1474-07-29.

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The simple answer is not very well, "metal" shields were actually still mostly wood, but the key differences are that the edges are protected my metal rims, and a metal boss (lump in the middle) is used to improve bashing in close contact.

The front of a shield is quite difficult to hack into when you consider that properly trained swordsmen would use it to deflect, rather than just block. The real weakness of a wooden shield was any time the opponent's weapon caught an edge, because splitting would (wood?) occur at that moment.

A medieval biller made axes.

In its barest form, a trebuchet is a simple Type 1 Lever - a long pole with a weight at one end, and a pivot in the middle.

They are relatively simple to make - all that is needed is wood and iron. A long, straight beam of wood (or several such beams) are required for the throwing arm, with thick wood beams being used to create dual "A-frame" structures as the supports. An iron rod is typically used for the pivot, and stones or iron scraps are typically what fills the counterweight bucket.

Ghazni (now called Lahore).

Through US "Snail" mail, YES. Through Email worldwide, unfortunately not.