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Medieval Warfare
Medieval Warfare refers to warfare during the Middle Ages (5th – 15th century). This period saw a significant change in military weapons and tactics, with the introduction of gun powder, personal armor, and siege warfare.
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Whats the best metal for a sword?
When you are looking to buy a sword the best thing you want to do at first is think what you want to use it for. The reason you want to do that is so that you don't buy the wrong type of sword for what you really want. Believe me, I made that mistake and broke my first sword. So to make sure you don't make the same mistake I did, I am going to give you some advice.
First off I will tell you what each metal is for:
STAINLESS STEEL: Basically, the only reason you ever want to buy a stainless steel sword is either if you want it to break in half and cut you really bad, or if you are smart and know that it is ONLY for display and to look pretty for decoration.
CARBON STEEL: This metal is good for a nice edge that will stay on your sword and is what most would call, "a functional sword" and in fact, it is functional so if you are on a budget it is definitely the way to go.
FLEXIBLE STEEL: This metal is extremely good quality and will hold out a long time and even keep an edge fairly long. The only problem, IT IS EXPENSIVE! If you really want to go all out this is really the way to go because it is very flexible henceforth flexible steel.
I hope I made your choice easier and good luck! Buying a sword can be a hard choice so try to get more references also! If you are looking for swords try all around to find the sword you want also think about the kind of sword you want before you buy it! For instance, I prefer Japanese style katanas. Good luck! =)
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I don't know if it is the best for making swords, but in a sword like a katana, I usually hear of Tamahagane being used. I was actually looking at other questions, like the strongest metal for a sword, and people say Tungsten since it's the strongest metal known, from what I've been reading, might be lies though.
oh come on please im a yr7 doing a test and no answeres come up this is crummy from otto
Did the Black Death cause war?
yes, black death caused many revolts. Some wars were also inspired by it.
When was the siege tower used?
From about 300 B.C until about the end of the medieval era when cannons became so effective that siege towers were obsolete. If you're asking the question "In what situation was the siege tower used" then the answer is when the walls were too thick to shoot down with heavy artillery or when the army's budget was so low that thy couldn't afford cannon.
How a castle siege might begin?
As soon as the Lord or his Chatelain knew a large opposing army was going to surround them, they would gather all the food and soldiers in the castle and lock it up from inside.
What does a medieval castle include?
To see pictures and diagrams of what castles look like, click on the related links listed below.
As the medieval period spanned approx 400 years, what medieval castles looked like could vary a lot depending upon when they were built, what materials were used and the location.
Following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 until around 1100, castles were mainly motte and bailey type with frames and palisades (fences) made of timber.
From the 12th century onwards these were replaced by castles made of stone, the most substantial being concentric castles. Leeds Castle in Kent built in 1119 is a good example of a concentric castle which is still in tact.
The site for a castle's construction could vary enormously and therefore affected how it was built and how it looked. One example is Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland which was built on very high ground overlooking. Another is Beaumaris Castle in Anglesey which was built on marshland.
See links below:
Medieval castles timeline 1066 to 1399
Leeds Castle photos
What did the Medieval battering ram do to help the castle?
It was rammed through walls and big doors. They would first douse the doors with oil. Then they would set fire to them and let it burn to weakin the enourmous wooden doors.
In the fire What sort of answer is that above????? The bubonic plague was thought to have started in the Gobi Desert and carried by fleas on rats it reached the Crimea in 1346. In 1347 it was in Constantinople and soon arrived in Western Europe. The plague of 1665 started in Central Asia, it spread worldwide and killed millions
What kind of armor was used in the 1800s?
Armor was not a military concept until the early and middle 20th century. Armor was actually the invention of the British (actually Australian born Lancelot de Mole) design, the Mark I, which was the first tank ever in combat in Spetember 1916, World War I. While other vehicles and equipement utilize armor plating, the term armor typical refers to tanks or fighting vehicles such as the Bradley, the Cougar, and the M1117 Guardian, as well as others in the US arsenal.
When was the first siege engine made?
during the american civil war. the union brought archimedes back to life to invent it
What are the advantages of longbow?
A longbow was much lighter than a crossbow and provided a better rate of fire.
What is a mock battle in medieval times?
It can be a training exercise between units to train and to test tactics.
It can also be a reenactment of a Historical Battle.
In Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops/Plus it is also used as a code for "lol".
What is a chainmail leggings worn by a knight?
The leggings of maille armour were usually called "chausses", and were indeed an armour reserved for wealthier knights initially, but were considered a lower quality of armour as coats of plates, brigandine and full plate harnesses gradually came out (with similar style parts covering the legs).
What weapon invented replaced the catapult?
Heavy guns; cannons and mortars, replaced catapaults circa the 14th Century.
What were two impacts the mongols had on china and Russia?
Two Impacts the Mongols had on China was the Complete reunification of China; having conquered Xixia, the Jin, Kara-Khitai and Song Dynasty. The Mongols also brought cultural influences from the Middle East into China such as surgery and astronomy.
For Russia the Mongol Conquest created a political system which eventually would result in the creation of a Russian state under Moscow. This was done by the Mongols entitling Certain Russian leaders to be their tax collectors, which conferred many privileges and benefits. Additionally The Mongols. Additionally the Mongol Conquest moved the cultural center of russia away from Kiev, and attempted to rule them for the next 200 years through divide et impera.
How many people did it take to use a medieval battering ram?
Not long. It basically was a tree, chopped down. Finding the tree may have been the hard part. Battering rams more or less went out of use when the cannon was invented. When gunpowder was invented it was the modern technology for the time and it changed the way battles were fought and the types of defense used.
Who built Medieval times weapons?
Better weapons were made by armorers. Blacksmiths made weapons, and peasants made weapons by putting agricultural tools like scythe blades and bill hooks on poles. Bowyers made bows, fletchers made arrows, and heavy weapons like catapults were made by engineers. The early cannons were sometimes made by bellfounders.
What is a medieval innovation in weapons?
Broad-side swords, crossbows, battle axes and catapults are the common ones.
The Trebuchet is a weapon that flung rocks or dead cows hoping to spread disease. catapults were out-classed by the monagol
Allow me to expand on this answer:
I'll assume that we're talking about the mid-medieval era, and there were MANY different weapons for many different purposes.
Swords were acctually less common then many people think - they worked well against unarmored peasents, but they were only usefull for breaking bones if someone was wearing chainmail. They were almost alltogether useless against a fully armoured knight. To take down one of these walking tanks, a Mace or other blunt-type weapons were prefered by many nobles. Getting bashed on the head by a big heavy piece of steel leaves your ears ringing if you're wearing a metal helmet...and taking off your helmet after a good hit would be many people's first instinct - which was the whole idea behind hitting your helmet to begin with.
Halberds were another handy weapon with multiple roles, useful against mounted and dismounted soldiers alike.
Bows were another common place weapon. Particularily the longbow with England, which Henry V used in a desicive victory over the french heavy cavalry at the battle of Agincourt in 1415 during the hundred years war.
here's a list of weapons I can think of off the top of my head:
Spear, Lance, Javeline, Axe, Mace, Swords(short,broad) Clubs, Bows, Halberd, Pike, Bows (short, long, cross),
and last but most certainly not least.....gunpowder!!(towards the end anyway)
i know i didn't include all weapons by anymeans, and everything i mentioned was handheld with the exception of gunpowder.
mostly farm tools were used because that's who fought the most not everyone was a knight in medieval times lol scythes were used ad so were flails both of which farm tools knights in full armor had a hard time walking because the armor was usually very heavy and knights on horseback sometimes had boots that made walking similar to walking with flippers it's wasn't the weight of the armor that was the problem usually though it was the flexibility
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swords, 2 handed swords, crossbows, maces, battleaxes, flails, daggers, spears, javelins, clubs, bows and arrows. Just play runescape and know the answer.
Technically, a weapon is anything used for attack or defense, and medieval refers to something from the Middle Ages, so a medieval weapon would be something from the Middle Ages used for attack or defense. However, specific weapons present during the middle ages included many types of edged weapons (all variants of swords, daggers, axes or knives) ranged weapons such as bows, recurve bows, longbows, crossbows, javelins, throwing axes etcetera, polearm weapons such as spears, pikes, halberds, bills etcetera and siege weaponry ranging from catapults, mangonels and trebuchets etcetera through to siege towers, battering rams etctera.
What happened at the Siege of Drogheda?
Drogheda is a town in Eastern Ireland. It was actually besieged twice: once during the Irish Rebellion in 1641 by O'Neill and his insurgents, who failed to take the town, and again, more famously in 1649 by Oliver Cromwell in his Conquest of Ireland: He did take the town, and massacred most of its habitants: the entire military garrison, any Catholic clergy and many of the civilians.
How did the black death spread?
Because Europe was trading with the East, some medieval Europeans were aware of a mysterious disease sweeping through Asia in the 1330s. From Central Asia, the disease moved along an established trade route, passing through Turkestan and the Black Sea Region (Crimea and the Byzantine Empire).
In 1347, Kaffa, a town in modern-day Ukraine that was a Genoese trading post, came under attack by a Tartar army. When the Tartars were killed by the plague, the Genoese at first rejoiced: God had answered their prayers and punished their enemy. But that celebration ended when the Tartars began launching the corpses of plague victims over the walls of the city, hoping that the smell of rot would kill everyone in town. The smell didn't kill the Genoese, of course, but the disease did. The panicked Genoese threw the corpses back or submerged them in water. But it was no use; they were already exposed. As the dying Tartars retreated, the Genoese fled by ship to Sicily, taking the deadly disease with them to Europe.
Kaffa wasn't the only eastern trading port on the Black Death's path, but Genoa's ships took the blame for bringing the pestilence. Once it hit Europe, the Black Death moved fast, traveling at an average speed of 2.5 miles per day (4 km per day) [source: Duncan, Scott]. From the Mediterranean ports, the disease took two paths; one through France that eventually made its way to England and Ireland, and one through Italy that went to Austria and Germany. The Black Death moved through Europe astonishingly fast. Take a look at some of the stops on its path.
Written accounts state that the disease was frightfully contagious, and that death occurred only a few days after symptoms appeared. Other than this, people seemed to have no idea what was happening. Many felt that God's wrath was ravaging the earth and that the end of the world was near. Some theorized that Jews were contaminating the water supply. Both of these ideas spurred extreme responses that we'll explore in the next section.
When people began dying in France, King Philip VI turned to the Paris College of Physicians, the most highly-regarded medical authorities of the time, to learn the cause. The physicians produced a report that blamed the mass deaths on an event that occurred at 1 p.m. on March 20, 1345 -- the triple conjunction of the planets Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in Aquarius. The report explained that Jupiter, a wet and hot planet, soaked up evil vapors from Earth. And Mars, a dry planet, ignited the vapors and spread them through the air, which is how Europe got enveloped in a fog of death.
many believe that it started in China. Mongol army camps were the first sites.
