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Ancient World

Ancient weapons varied across regions and cultures. Copper, bronze and iron were used to create weapons like swords, spears and maces in Mesopotamia, China, and Egypt. The Sumerians, Native Americans and South Africans used stone and flint weapons. Composite bows emerged in Central Asia while the Phoenicians developed naval rams and the Greeks introduced triremes. Military structures also differed - the Roman army had legions and auxiliaries while Celtic tribes were organized by nobles, clan chiefs, and war bands.

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Ancient weapons varied across regions and cultures. Copper, bronze and iron were used to create weapons like swords, spears and maces in Mesopotamia, China, and Egypt. The Sumerians, Native Americans and South Africans used stone and flint weapons. Composite bows emerged in Central Asia while the Phoenicians developed naval rams and the Greeks introduced triremes. Military structures also differed - the Roman army had legions and auxiliaries while Celtic tribes were organized by nobles, clan chiefs, and war bands.

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WEAPONS OF THE ANICENT WORLD:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_weapons#Pre-history_and_the_ancient_world
Copper weapons (maces, spears, swords, clubs, and slings) --------------------Sumerians
Chariot archers and chariot spear users
Flint spears and knives----------------------------------------------------------------Native American
Bows, arrows, slings, spears
Bronze weapons------------------------------------------------------------------------China

Spears, pole-axes, pole-based dagger-axes, composite bows, and bronze or leather helmets

Stone-tipped weapons-----------------------------------------------------------------South Africa

Recurve bow, (bamboo and composite bows (Chinese)) --------------------------Central Asia

Composite and long bows-------------------------------------------------------------Egypt

Sickle-sword

Mailed shirts, metal helmets, superior daggers and swords----------------------Hyksos

Sickle-sword

War galley armed with a battering ram----------------------------------------------Phoenicians

Tridents----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Greeks

Mining through city walls, and demolition of them-------------------------------Assyria

First to use iron in creating weapons, also developed battering rams, and siege towers, the use of
cavalry appeared

Introduction of triremes------------------------------------------------Athens and the Greek city-states

Long spears, shields, helmets and breastplates

Akinakes---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Persians

Phalanx-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Macedon

Sarissa, heavy weapons, artillery pieces, dedicated cavalry, Torsion catapults, cheiroballistra

Legionaries and Auxiliaries-----------------------------------------------------------------Romans


Gladius, Pilum
TECHNOLIGES THE ANICENT WORLD:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_technology
---------------------------------------------------Mesopotamia-------------------------------------------------
metalworking, copper-working, glassmaking, lamp making, textile weaving, flood control,
invention of writing, Code of Hammurabi, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, wheel, chariots,
pottery, sexagesimal number system

-----------------------------------------------------Bronze age-------------------------------------------------

copper, bronze, and iron were used for armor and weapons (swords, daggers, spears, and maces),
water systems, earliest pump was the Archimedes' screw

------------------------------------------------------------Babylon----------------------------------------------

Babylonian medicine, Babylonian astronomy

-------------------------------------------------------------Egypt------------------------------------------------

Simple machines (ramp to aid construction processes), extract gold by large-scale mining using
fire-setting, first recognizable map,

--------------------------------------------------------Africa----------------------------------------------------

Carbon steel creation with high-temperature blast furnaces,

--------------------------------------------------------India------------------------------------------------------

hydrography, metrology, and sewage collection and disposal, The Takshashila University, herbs as
medicines, Sushruta Samhita (400 BC) by Sushruta has details about performing cataract
surgery, plastic surgery, etc., pioneering in its use of vegetable dyes, cultivating, plants
including, indigo and cinnabar, perfumes demonstrates some knowledge of chemistry,
particularly distillation and purification processes.

--------------------------------------------------------China-----------------------------------------------------
significant advances in science, technology, mathematics, and astronomy (first recorded
observations of comets, solar eclipses, and supernovae), Traditional Chinese medicine,
acupuncture and herbal medicine were also practiced, crossbows, paper, iron ploughs, seed
drilling, raised relief maps, woodblock printing, piston pumping
------------------------------------------------Greek and Hellenistic------------------------------------------
gear, screw, bronze casting techniques, water clock, water organ(hydraulis), torsion siege engine,
and the use of steam to operate some experimental machines and toys, basic steam engine and
demonstrated knowledge of mechanic and pneumatic systems. Archimedes invented several
machines, ballistae, the piston pump, and primitive analog computers like the Antikythera
mechanism, true domes, and were the first to explore the Golden ratio and its relationship with
geometry and architecture, watermills and windwheels, torsion catapults, pneumatic catapults,
crossbows, cranes, rutways, organs, the keyboard mechanism, differential gears, screws, refined
parchment, showers, dry docks, diving bells, odometer and astrolabes, Automata (like vending
machines, automatic doors and many other ingenious devices were first built by Hellenistic
engineers as Ctesibius, Philo of Byzantium and Heronm)
---------------------------------------------------------Roman---------------------------------------------------
Civil engineering, construction materials, transport technology, mechanical reaper, advanced
road-building, Gallic reaper, aqueducts on a grand scale, reverse overshot water-wheel,
hydraulic mining methods for prospecting for metal ores, hushing, monumental arches,
amphitheaters, aqueducts, public baths, true arch bridges, harbors, dams, vaults and domes on a
very large scale, book (Codex), glass blowing and concrete, insulae, street paving, public flush
toilets, glass windows and floor and wall heating, hydraulics and constructed fountains and
waterworks, particularly aqueducts
ARMRY STRUCTURE OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

Roman Germany Carthage Celtic


LV. 1 Military Tribune LV. 1 Wrakjon LV. 1 Mhecib LV. 1 Noble

LV. 2 Quaestor LV. 2 Karlaz LV. 2 Rab Sheni LV. 2 Clan Chief

LV. 3 Aedilis LV. 3 Curulis LV. 3 War band


LV. 3 Frijaz LV. 3 Rab Kohanim
Leader
LV. 4 Praetor
LV. 4 Winiz LV. 4 Rab Mahanet LV. 4 War Chief
LV. 5 Consul

LV. 5 Hairaz LV. 5 Rab Shelosi LV. 5 Elder


LV. 6 Governor

LV. 6 Verehon
LV. 7 Censor LV. 6 Erilaz LV. 6 Adon

LV. 7 Shophet LV. 7 Vergobet


LV. 7 Kuningaz

Nomadic Hellenic
LV. 1 Noble LV. 1 Agoranomas

LV. 2 Tribial Chief


LV. 2 Dikastes
LV. 3 War band
Leader LV. 3 Agonothets

LV. 4 War Chief LV. 4 Epistates

LV. 5 Elder LV. 5 Peligan

LV. 6 Royal Noble LV. 6 Strategos

LV. 7 Tribal King LV. 7 Episcopos

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