OLD AGE WEAPONE
ANCIENT WORLD WEAPONS::
The use of metal, first copper from about 3,300 BC, followed shortly by bronze led to the Bronze Age sword and other similar weapons.
Cavalry developed once horses were bred to support the weight of a man and professional armies.
Siege weapons such as the battering ram, siege hook, catapult and ballista and Chinese repeating crossbow and advanced fighting ships .
WEAPONS OF MIDDLE AGE::
As time passed and armies grew more professional, equipment was more standardized and infantry switched to carrying pikes with smaller weapons as side-arms .
The introduction of Gunpowder revolutionized warfare, as formations of musketeers, protected by pike men came to dominate open battles, while sieges were revolutionized by the advent of cannons.
EARLY MODERN PERIOD WEAPONS::
The Renaissance marked the beginning of the implementation of firearms in warfare, with the introduction of guns and rockets to the battlefield.
Fire arms are qualitatively different from earlier weapons because they store energy in a combustible propellant such as gunpowder, rather than in a weight or spring.
This energy is released quite rapidly, and can be restored without much effort by the user, so that even early firearms such as the arquebus were much more powerful than human-powered weapons.
During the U.S. Civil War various technologies including the machine gun and ironclad warship emerged that would be recognizable and useful military weapons today, particularly in lower-technology conflicts.
In the 19th century warship propulsion changed from sail power to fossil fuel-powered steam engines.
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