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It was used both as a hunting and fishing tool and as a weapon. Along with the axe, knife and club, it is one of the earliest and most important tools developed by early humans
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The bow and arrow appeared in europe around the transition from the Upper Paleolithic to the Mesolithic.
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Before horses were domesticated they were probably hunted for meat but around 3000 bce they were domesticated as a means of transportation
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It was one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature, most notably Homer's Iliad.
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The longbow was an incredibly strong piece of wood roughly 6 feet tall and 5/8 inch wide.
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It was an ancient greek war fought between delian league led by athens and the peloponnesian league led by sparta.
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The trebuchet is believed to be an ancient war engine. It is thought that it may have developed from the stave sling.
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It was a series of three wars fought between rome and carthage and they were some of the largest wars of the time.
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Gunpowder spread throughout most parts of Eurasia by the end of the 13th century. It was first used for warfare.
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It was a series of religious war started by the latin church in the medieval period.
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It was supplanted by the matchlock arquebus, which is the first firearm to have a trigger.
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The war was over the right to rule the kingdom of france.
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the matchlock gun was first used by the Janissary corps of the Ottoman army. A shooter uses one hand for firing, and a prop to steady the gun
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Spanish conquistadors overthrew the Aztec Empire.Cortés helped old enemies of the Aztecs defeat them making it one of the most important events in the Spanish colonization of America
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It was one of the most destructive conflicts in human history, it resulted in eight million fatalities not only from military engagements but also from violence, famine, and plague.
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the first successful submarine was built in 1620 by Cornelius Drebbel and tested in the Thames River, where it completed a three hour journey
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It was a war over the manner of england's governance.
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It was a seriece of major conflicts putting the french empire and its allies against an array of european powers.
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The revolver handgun was made so that a gun could be fired multiple times without reloading.
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It was a political and religious upheave that was probably one of the most important dates in chinese history.
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the ironclad warship was designed to be impervious to enemy shot and shell by virtue of their iron-armored wooden hulls.
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It was a war between the north and the south over a long standing controversy of the enslavement of african americans.
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the maximum fire machine gun used a recoil system to fire up to 500 rounds per minute.
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It was an uprising in china led by a group called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists against the spread of influence.
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The war began after the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand. During the war the central powers fought against the allied powers.
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the tank was first used in battle on september 15 during the battle of somme
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It was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the two Russian Revolutions to determine russia's political future.
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It was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. It started when the nazis invaded poland, the war went on for six years until the Allies defeated Nazi Germany and Japan.
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It was a state of political hostility between the soviet union and the united states.
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the United States dropped its first atomic bomb from a B-29 bomber plane called the Enola Gay on Japanese city of Hiroshima. It exploded with about 13 kilotons of force, leveling five square miles of the city and killing 80,000 people instantly.
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The first hydrogen bomb was detonated by the us on the island of Elugelab in Enewetak Atoll, in the Pacific Ocean, as part of Operation Ivy.
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It was a mass slaughter of tutsi and took place during the rwandan civil war. Between 500,000 and 1,074,017 people were killed.
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The war began in the democratic republic of the congo. The war officially ended when the transitional government of the democratic republic of the congo took power.
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It is a large-yield bomb, developed for the United States military by Albert L. Weimorts, Jr. of the Air Force Research Laboratory.