Middle Ages Weapons

Yes, one could find this to be quite an arguable point and one could find the points to argue that. Points such as the weaponry that came out of the middle ages. Then siege equipment and possibly armor, maybe even castles. Then such things as tactics and types of people in those tactics making formations. All these points are to be argued here on this exact paper, for the sake of knowledge. Weapons, the items held by man to destroy man and others, a never ending arsenal. Just like every year that arsenal expands, with ideas crazier than the last. The middle ages was like the day before Christmas for the arsenal, with anticipation just building up inside that arsenal waiting to explode. With time the explosion would inevitably happen, but

Some examples of these weapons have been in an article mentioned and created by Freelance writer and web designer Cory Barclay, posted on the social media company, “The Richest”. All of these weapons were designed between the years 672-1491, weapons that were mentioned included, The Flail, Greek Fire, Fire Lance, The Steel Crossbow, The Mangonel, English Longbow, Pike, Longsword, Counterweight Trebuchet, Cannon, The Organ Gun, and the invention of gunpowder, even though gunpowder was not a weapon that a infantry man could fight with. It was a powder that could make other weapons work.

An example of the weapons of this innovative age was the Fire Lance, The lance had been created by the song dynasty to injury and kill enemies with a form of shrapnel. All the weapon had been was a bamboo tube with broken pottery and other hard materials that could be broken into a shard form. Then packed with gunpowder and hit with a form of ignition such as flint & steel to which the shrapnel would be launched through the end of the tube. Shredding whatever was in the lance’s path, quite the nasty

Barclay and resources from the Castles and Manor Houses Inc. tell of the types of siege equipment and their importance on the battlefield during a siege. Some examples of siege equipment are the rock throwing mangonel and counterweight trebuchet to battering rams and siege towers and with the invention of gunpowder, cannons. Mangonel and trebuchet had been the hit of the time when they began their time of service. Mangonel were employed to break down walls and gates from afar and sometimes support troops on the field on open usually flat land. Trebuchets found their use throwing rocks from even further than mangonels and as form of biological warfare during the dark ages where infected bodies were loaded on trebuchets and launched into cities. Then battering rams would make their way to the gates to knock them down using manpower and a large log to bust the gates to pieces. While siege towers would carry groups of men to enemy walls where they’d deposit the men onto the walls. With this quote from Kritovoulos one can grasp the true powers of a cannon. “136. Then they set fire to it through the short hole behind, igniting the powder. And when this took fire, quicker than it takes to say it, there was a fearful roar first, and a shaking of the earth beneath and for a long way off, and a noise such as never was heard before. Then, with an astounding thunder and a frightful crashing and a flame that lit up all the surroundings and then left them black, the rod, forced out