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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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How long was the siege at masada?
It is reckoned to have lasted two or three months.
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The Black Plague started in with the Mongolian nomads and spread through the Gobi Desert and to China and killed about 1 million or billion people. From China it spread to Italy possibly through the silk roads and from there it pretty much spread through flagellants, travelers, more trade and poor sanitation.
A siege is when a castle, fort, walled town or city is surrounded and nothing is allowed to get in or out. A siege usually continues until the city (or otherwise) either surrenders due to lack of supplies, until the city falls to attack, until the besieging army gives up and goes away or until the besieging army is chased away or defeated by a relieving army.
'Liege' rhymes with siege.
What is a siege in the Medieval Times?
A siege is when a castle, fort, walled town or city is surrounded and nothing is allowed to get in or out. A siege usually continues until the city (or otherwise) either surrenders due to lack of supplies, until the city falls to attack, until the besieging army gives up and goes away or until the besieging army is chased away or defeated by a relieving army.
'Liege' rhymes with siege.
Who invented the medieval shield?
The sword comes from the ancient Chinese. The medieval swords come up from different ages like iron age, bronze age, middle ages, late middle ages and the modern era. In medieval swords so many swords are categorized so specifically we cannot say who invented these.
What is the place called where someone was hanged?
The gallows was a structure where people were hung.
How was math used and done in the Middle Ages?
The High Middle Ages brought a huge increase in the study of mathematics and in the abilities of mathematicians because of the introduction of practices developed in Islamic countries in the East and introduced to Europe primarily through Spain. These included the use of Arabic numerals, which replaced the very clunky Roman system and remain in use today. Algebra was developed by Islamic people, as was algebraic geometry, from its rudimentary beginnings in Greece. These developments, and others, made it possible for Medieval mathematicians to do easily what Roman mathematicians had not dreamed of, and engineering developed as a result.
During the High Middle Ages, universities started to open, and these really got into full swing in the Late Middle Ages. It was during the time of transition from the one to the other that the first secular degrees, such as degrees in mathematics, were offered. The development of such subjects as astronomy, in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, depended to a large extent on work done in this time.
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What wars were catapults used in?
The ancient Greeks used the first catapults to fend off the Romans back in the B.C.'s. The earliest recorded date for the mangonel (fixed bowl) catapult is about 750 B.C. Catapults were used well in the middle ages until replaced by cannons.
What is the history of the Onager catapult?
Actually, we don't have a lot to go on. At the end of the 19th century, the nobleman and amateur historian Ralph Payne Gallwey wrote a book about the crossbow, and in it he describes the "catapult", what modern historians call a mangonel or onager.
What happened to the vikings after 1066?
yes the Vikings were involved in the battle of 1066
It was Harold hardrada claiming that he was the rightful king due to an agreement between his father hardicanute and the Danish ruler of England
The agreement
Hardicanute had promised the throne to Kind Magnus of Norway and as magnus was too old to battle edward the confessor magnus's son Harold Hardrada was his heir and therefore said he was the next in line for the throne.
What were chickens used for in the middle ages?
Yes. Eggs were very important as a protein source in the Middle Ages, as even poor people could afford them most of the time.
Was the catapult effective in medieval times?
The catapult worked by using tension in ropes to pull back the projectile cradle, then release and fling the object. The catapult ropes were usually cranked until enough tension existed, then it was released an all that potential energy turned into mechanical kinetic energy, flinging the object.
What materials are catapult made of?
Mostly out of wood.
The oldest forms of a catapult are known are described about 2,000 years ago. These were based on principles used in the cross bow and therefore required some elastic material to store energy and a structural support to hold the mechanism. The essential elastic element was presumably a wood product just as the elastic element of a bow has been made of wood up until more modern constructions with spring metal and plastic materials.
They were made of timber. There were two sources of energy for the mangonel; cantilever spring and torsion spring. The torsion spring was more effective than the cantilever spring, as it provided more energy. The torsion spring was located in the axle, i.e. the bottom of the arm and crossbar, and was basically a bundle of twisted ropes. The arm was put in the middle. When the rope that held the arm down was released, the sides of the ropes were twisted, pulling the arm up at a great speed and launching the projectile. Projectiles launched from a mangonel could cover up about 1,300 ft of ground.
A cantilever spring was a plank of wood perched at the crossbar. A short rope was slung around the arm, and the ends knotted around the ends of the plank of wood. However, the restraining rope held down the rope, and the plank of wooden was fixed around the crossbar, and so when the restraining rope was released, the cantilever spring would snap back into place and the force of it would spread the second rope, rotating the arm and launching the projectile.
Mangonels were made by the Romans, and introduced to England in the year 1216, in a siege.
Why is a trebuchet better than a catapult?
The trebuchet is larger (thus making everything else better, like a child throwing smaller rocks at a shorter distance than an adult can).
The system is also designed better, the catapult uses stored elasticity to propel the rock, whereas the trebuchet uses a heavily weighted beam which is lifted and stores gravitational energy, while the long sling holds the rock.
The leverage of the beam which is close to the pivot point against the long sling which will thus move faster propels its ammunition at an even faster speed than a catapult ever did.
Hopefully this answers the question.
How do you make a medieval breastplate?
go to armour archives and they have patterns so you can make them in metal, its the same prinicple really without the hammering if you are using a diffetent material.
Why was the catapult a good idea?
the catapult was invented by the Greeks so they can destroy the other citys and the people with it.
Who would win in a fight a pirate or a knight?
Ninjas are probably more powerful than pirates because although pirates have guns and swords, ninjas are stealthy and would never be seen by a pirate in the first place, and then the ninja (like most ninjas) carry out a silent assassination. The pirate would never know what hit him/her. What ninjas lack in special weapons, they excel in stealth and ability.
Ninjas obviously. They know kung-fu.
Ninjas are cool for learning martial arts and studying the arts of jujitsu, kung
fu, martial arts, and karate. Also, Ninjas are trained to fight for self defense and not for evil!
Def. Ninjas they are quiet and stealth like so they could just sneak attack and beat them.
Oh and remember that one word that the ninjas have nothing to fight?
Ninjas did have guns, they didn't like to use them but they did if they had to.
Ninjas would win because they're usually sober and stealthy unlike pirates. For more proof ask if us ninjas wear underwear. That will be all . . . ninja out ninjas wear underwear?
Ninjas, of course - pirates massacred. They're not that agile compared to ninjas ya know. Ninjas are trained assassins and experts in their own cohort plus pirates use huge scary weapons easy to dodge....
PiratesGood question but a pirate would be stronger because they have determination.Pirates are way better for these reasons: They get the girls, they have guns, and the drink a lot of rum. What more can you ask for?
Plus pirates get booty. Although, while most of that is true, you must keep in mind the fact the pirates are out at sea for years at a time...with lots and lots of men.
They are cool if you are all for the blowing up others ships, and stealing because there are still pirates till this day and they live in the Atlantic ocean and that is all they do.
Pirate. Let me break it down for ya: Ninja=Martial arts, Dazzling moves. Pirate=Flintlock pistol.... Nuff' said.
If they were just walking along and ran into each other the pirate would win. Ninjas are based more on stealth well, as we all know, Pirates are more hand-to-hand on a normal basis. The Pirate would kill the ninja.
The fact is that no real ninjas exist in fairyland (pirates still do, by the way). Look in the news. How often do you hear about walloping kangaroos in the news? And what about pirates? All the time antidisestablishmentarianism is on the rise. And no one can dodge a hamster; that's just plain dumb. A bullet flies at over 1 mph a fat human being could never move that fast. It is physically impossible.
Hello are you nuts? Do you know what ninjas were? They were petty thieves they have all that stealth training because they waited in the bamboo forests for caravans to come and they would ambush them. So morally they are no better than Pirates so the whole good not evil thing is horsh crap. And Hello Pirates have lived on there ship for years! They know every nook and cranny, so then while the ninjas wandered around the pirates would be the ones hiding and sneaking up on the ninjas!
Pirates would win because they have guns and swords and Ninjas don't have anything except there karate moves.
GUNS!And there still are some ninjas out there today; they are called... the FBI! (Just kidding). There are still ninjas out there somewhere. Summary...Whether one is better than the other, or if they are equal in prowess, is just personal opinion.A crossbow is a weapon that is constructed as a bow mounted on a stick with a mechanism that keeps the bowstring drawn. While there are many variations of the crossbow, most designs have trigger that releases the bow and propels the arrow with great force. Some crossbows require the bowstring to be pulled back into place manually, while others have a crank that draws the bowstring.
