Weapons In The Middle Ages

Medieval Ages

The Medieval Ages was a time in history when people were extremely undeveloped, war was not uncommon, and people had absurd beliefs. Among these poor things, culture did have a big role in the Medieval Ages; since there was a majority Christian population, the church often ruled most lives. This was also a time of great kings and their kingdoms, and the valiant knights that protected them. This is the nitty gritty, the good stuff, the bloody gore: the weapons. In medieval times, many people fought other kingdoms for many different reasons: payback, gold, necessities, or even religion. So it seems pretty obvious that they would need weapons. As you might know from folklore or stories, swords were used by knights when fighting

These are the different ways that they used to attack other kingdoms and take over, spreading their influence. One of the most infamous methods of sieging was to catapult a dead creature or person with the black plague over the walls of a fort. This would cause the black plague to spread throughout the fort and kill most, if not, all people in the fort. Another clever trick thought up by the Persians was to leave large pieces of armour behind to make it seem like they had some sort of super-soldiers. Some methods they used to intimidate the enemy were to use fire (although this often backfired) or to use dummies behind the walls to make it seem more fortified. Some other sieging methods included undermining (digging under walls to make them collapse), going over the wall using large wooden towers called belfries, breaching the doorway with weapons, or sitting and waiting without letting any outside communications or supplies to get in (sort of like an

Your social class often told you your place in society. The social class usually went like this: Peasants at the bottom of society, Lords were above peasants, Barons above lords, bishops above barons, and kings above bishops. Due to the Peasant’s position on the Social Class scale, they were often more like slaves to the Lords. The Lords owned them and all their possessions that they had (even though they had little). Peasants could gain their freedom from this slavery by marrying a free person or buying their own property. Although they would probably have to do this at a young age if ever because the average lifespan of a peasant was only 25 years. To put this into perspective, 90% of the population in Medieval Europe lived and worked off the