Arms Weapons

Weapons, some terms:

The swords are divided into two main groups pushing swords to beat (with tip) and swords to hit the tug of war (with the tip and the edge).

The frames of iron or bronze or silver golden times are:

Perpendicular to the rocket (handle) and blade speed

O branches of the guard that protects the hand .

The rocket or wooden handle is covered with skin, bones may ebony or ivory, sometimes of molten metal.

The blades are back triangular, flat, straight swords and sabers, swords only for curves.

Arms history:

In 3000 BC.  Jesus Christ: First time copper knives were used.

For first time bronze swords were used in Europe in 2500-1000 BCE. JC

1000 a. C: Discovery of iron by the Hittites.

500 BC: Discovering the process of carbonization of the Celts that convert iron into steel.

Late Antiquity: increased rate of weapons (ax, scram sax, spear).

X-XIV century: the evolution of the blade of the sword more and more focused on hitting the tug of war. acceleration of production through the forging of the mill.

Final fifteenth-sixteenth century: The Fencing Sword Transformed.

End of XVI century: the creation of assembly Schiavone in Venice and the Sword Scotland (rack mount).

XVII century: emergence and spread of coltsfoot Walloon city swords frameworks.

First Regulation sword by the King of France: 1679.

1695: first heavy swords.

Eighteenth Century: the generalization of the sword of Hungarian origin.

Many models of knives emerge throughout the nineteenth century and were used until the First World War and during the twentieth century for the parade.

Guns

Ever since 1354, the guns seem to defend the city of Metz. Small arms, artillery shells first big boxes like the crossbow.

In the fifteenth century meets portable firearms first, saying “sticks of fire” on the approach of a lighted match to light the pipe.

Around 1520, the board is “spinning” mechanism that is similar to the clock. The grooved wheel driven by a chain driven by a spring, creating a shower of sparks from the friction in a pyrite chine’s maintained by the firing rate is only slightly modified.

At the end of the sixteenth century, the covers seem to be “criminals” and “Miquelet, whose dogs to pull the stone hits the battery, the spark to ignite the priming powder and pelvis.

In 1717, the first French military rifles are “Flint” equipped with bayonet connector.

In 1733, the first specter pistols, guns and several drafts of barrels. Rifles mounted with this robust and reliable, yet loyal and formidable away from 200 meters.

Since the early nineteenth century, weapons of explosive primers, France “piston”, with percussion fire a dog on a chart, are spreading rapidly in all nations, both civilian and military.

Different tests of breech in 1860 to lead the creation of rifles called “needle” as Chassepot Deysa and then the appearance of the metal canister.

In the late nineteenth century there were so many inventions of top guns.

Armor, Helmets

It is invented relatively around 300 BC.JC. The original leather helmet and bronze. Phrygians and Greeks who were the first to wore the headdresses. The Middle Ages were a number of hull defense closed head bassinet (thirteenth to fourteenth century), Barbut, helmet (XIV century), chapel iron salad (XIV century), Burgundy (late fifteenth century), cape, Morion (XVI century), Cabasset (XVI century).

Age of Bronze: Man turns animal skins into leather.

Age: first “broignes” sheet used by the Egyptians.

J. AC -1200 C. The Greeks make breastplates and greaves of bronze.

300 To 200 BC: chain mail first appeared in the East.

150 In the scales of the V century armor iron chain mail and breastplates of iron sheet of the Romans.

VIII-X century: broignes many varieties between the Merovingians and the Normans, the onset of hair-raising in the ninth century.

XII century chain mail and gambeson strengthen the operation of the knights.

XVIII century: the first plate armor.

XV century: a profusion of suits of armor and clothes horses workshops run by the “batterers.”

In the late fifteenth-sixteenth of fashion armor “simple armor” that alters the number of models (just armor, armor Maximilian, half of the armor, armor …). Busk

At the end of the seventeenth century abandonment of the armor due to the evolution of firearms.

1802: Napoleon put to use weapons. The medieval bard still exists in the Middle East until the twentieth century.

So this is the history of armor. Hope now you have the knowledge about the history of armor.