warfare timeline

By Allie Riley
  • 3500 BCE

    humans first used the bow and arrow

    when we started using these bows and arrows this gave us great hunting skills but mainly war strategies in which gave us a better advantage to kill enemies farther away rather than close
  • 3000 BCE

    horses were first domesticated

    horses made war easy in the case of escaping and advantage of fast transportation and fast attacks
  • Period: 1184 BCE to 1194 BCE

    Trojan Wars

    waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta.
  • 1180 BCE

    the invention of the longbow

    the longbow was an upgrade of the bow and arrow it gave a stronger pull which meant a harder strike.
  • Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE

    The Peloponnesian War

    Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. game a settlement of others for a great war broke by one.
  • 300 BCE

    development of the trebuchet

    being similar to a catapult this machine gave advantage in hurling heavy stones or boulders to smash walls or castles.
  • Period: 264 BCE to 146 BCE

    Punic Wars

    three wars fought between Rome and Carthage, during this time they were known as some of the largest wars that had ever happened.
  • 850

    the invention of gunpowder

    gun powder pushed us to the making of firearms which were a great weapon and also gunpowder gave us bomblinles for ambush explosions.
  • Period: 1095 to 1492

    Crusades

    series of religious wars struck by the Latin Church in the medieval.
  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    One Hundred Years War

    series of conflicts fought between the House of Plantagenet and the French House of Valois.
  • 1470

    development of the matchlock gun

    this was a great advantage of the handcannon with greater range and better aiming precision.
  • Period: 1519 to 1521

    Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire

    hernan cortes overthrew the Aztec empire this made a change of dominance and trusting within warfare.
  • 1560

    the invention of the handcannon

    the handgun made the warfare a great battle by giving an advantage of longer kill distance greater kill level and a great devestation to the opponents.
  • 1578

    development of the first submarine

    this mobilized machine gave a better chance of protection sneak attacks, a great hiding place due to it being water based and was a big way to make an unexpected attack within camps along rivers and seas.
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    Thirty Years War

    a war fought primarily in Central Europe , known as one of the most dangerous war causing conflicts in history.
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    English Civil War

    series of civil wars between parliamentarians and Royalists.
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    Napoleonic Wars

    a series of major conflicts surrounding the French Empire and its allies. Split major governments withing differences of warfare.

  • the invention of the revolver handgun

    this gun gave the matchlock gun a bad name it was a very much upgraded gun and with much more precision and power. With a smaller model but petter aim and more of a strike for a smaller weapon.
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    The Taiping Rebellion

    a crazy but excessive cause of a massive continental rebellion of all connections.

  • the development of the first iron-clad warship

    gave an advance of bigger transportation with a big capacity for people and weapons and was able to carry bigger and not so easy mobilized cannons.
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    The American Civil War

    one of the longer wars that gave a lot of today's laws and military warnings its purpose.

  • the invention of the machine gun

    this gave a greater kill range with way more round capacities and a greater kill shot with and advantage of more dead in little time.
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    Boxer Rebellion

    anti-imperialist, anti-foreign, and anti-Christian conflict that happened in China toward the end of the Qing Dynasty.
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    World War I

    the game changer at this time of the united states warfare.

  • the development of the first tanke

    this heapy weaponized vehicle gave a way to crush camps beneath its track and a mobilized machine gun.
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    Russian Civil War

    after the Russian Revolutions,The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war between and within the former Russian Empire.
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    World War II

    the cause and making of two opposing military alliances known as the Allies and the Axis.

  • the use of the first atomic bomb

    this was a game-changer for area attacks. This bomb gave the ability to blow battle camps of opponents to pieces while not have to risk near as many lives in field on field combat. Used during world war ll on a japanese village.
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    Cold War

    geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States with its allies after World War II.

  • the first testing of the hydrogen bomb

    used first as a part of the ivy attack it was a way to completely blow a great area away with gases. set in the island of Elugelab in Enewetak Atoll.

  • the development of the anti-satellite laser

    this was used to destroy satellite radios to stop any other military communication or coding and locators of their military groups.
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    Rwandan Genocide

    A mass slaughter of Tutsi, Twa, and moderate Hutu.
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    Second Congo War

    held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than a year after the First Congo War, and involved some of the same issues as the first.

  • The development of the M.O.A.B.

    this was the biggest and baddest bomb ever made with a great act of leaving no trace of life left on its targeted area.