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20,000 BCE
When humans first used bow/arrow
It was used to kill and hunt. -
3000 BCE
Horses were first domesticated
It increased the distances people could travel at great speeds. -
850 BCE
Invention of Gunpowder
Used for fiery arrows, rifles, cannons, and grenades. It affected the way battles were fought and borders were drawn throughout the Middle Ages. -
Period: 490 BCE to 479 BCE
Greco Persian Wars
This was a series of wars fought by Greek states and Persia over a period of almost half a century. The result was that Athens won the Persian wars and that they stopped Persia from conquering Europe. It protected the Greek's independence and made sure that Persia did not conquer all of Europe. -
Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE
The Peloponnesian War
The cause of this war was Sparta was scared of the growing power and the impact of the Athenian Empire. It was fought between Greece, Athens and Sparta. The wealth, prestige, strategies, and power of Athens caused resentment among other city-states. This war also weakened greek states for 50 years -
Period: 264 BCE to 146 BCE
Punic Wars
It was a series of three wars between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian empire, followed in the destruction of Carthage, the enslavement of its people, and Roman hegemony over the western Mediterranean. It started with conflicts of interest between the existing Carthaginian Empire and the expanding Roman Republic. -
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Development of Trebuchet
Was used for hurling heavy stones to smash castle or city walls -
13
Development of the first hand cannon
It fires slowly with powerful shots that do a lot of damage to materials. -
14
Invention of the longbow
It was used as a weapon to kill in warfare -
17
Development of the Flintlock Musket
It was a gun used in the armies to defend themselves, and could also be used for hunting. -
17
Development of the first submarines
It used torpedoes, missiles or nuclear weapons, as well as advanced sensing equipment, to attack other submarines, ships, or land targets. -
Period: 1095 to 1492
Crusades
It was a series of religious wars permitted by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The goal of the Crusades was to recapture the Holy Land from Muslim forces. -
Period: 1337 to 1453
One Hundred Years War
It was a long war between England and France over succession to the French throne. The military commander was Edward 3rd of England. The conflict involved the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the French House of Valois, over the right to rule the Kingdom of France. It resulted in waste, population decrease, famine, and the Black Death. -
Period: Feb 1, 1519 to Aug 23, 1525
Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire
Hernan Cortes and his small army of conquistadors, driven by gold-lust, ambition and religious fervor, started the audacious conquest of the Aztec Empire. After this emperors were dead or captured, and the Spanish conquered the empire. -
Period: to
Thirty Years War
Some of the causes of this war was religious, dynastic, territorial, and commercial rivalries. France entered to a war against the Holy Roman Empire, turning the Bohemian Revolt into a thirty year long conflict. It lead to 8 million deaths. -
Period: to
English Civil War
The conflicts started from conflicts between Charles I and Parliament over an Irish insurrection.The first war was resolved with Oliver Cromwell's win for Parliamentary forces at the Battle of Naseby in 1645. King Charles was later forced to pay , extra taxes, like ship money for those living by the coast. -
Period: to
Napoleonic Wars
These were wars fought during the time Napoleon Bonaparte was the ruler of France. These wars changed European military systems. War began between United Kingdom and France in 1803. -
Development of the revolver handgun
It was the first multi-shot gun. -
Period: to
The Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion was led by Hong Xiuquan and was against the ruling Qing Dynasty. It was the most important event in China in the 19th century. It was caused because of problems such as lack of strong, central control over a large territory and poor economic prospects for a huge population. -
Invention of iron-clad warship
Designed to be impervious to enemy shot and shell by virtue of their iron-armored wooden hulls. -
Period: to
The American Civil War
The war was about slavery, but mainly about its economic issues. It was fought between the Union states (Northern states) and the states of the Confederacy (Southern states). The North won. -
First machine guns
They forced a chain to trench warfare. It also helped change armies' tactics, moving the armies away from massed formations and into looser battle orders. -
Period: to
Boxer Rebellion
It supported peasant uprising of 1900 that tried to drive all foreigners from China. In 1898 conservative, antiforeign forces won power of the Chinese government convinced the Boxers to drop their opposition to the Qing dynasty and unite with it in destroying the foreigners. -
Development of the first fighter aircraft
They were used as scout planes for artillery spotting.Later it was found that they could be armed and do combat with one another, shoot down enemy bombers, and conduct other tactical missions. -
Period: to
World War I
It began after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.During the war, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, Russia, France, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers). -
Development of the first tank
Tanks have heavy firepower, strong armour, and good battlefield manoeuvrability provided by tracks and a powerful engine. -
Period: to
Russian Civil War
The main fighting was against the Red Army and the White Army.
It was caused by a ragged Bolshevik militant being captured in 1919. It was also fought mostly by Russians. -
Period: to
World War II
The causes of this war was the political takeover of Germany by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party plus its aggressive foreign policy, Italian Fascism in the 1920s, and Japanese militarism preceding an invasion of China in the 1930s. WW2 was fought between the Axis Powers which were Germany, Italy, and Japan, and the Allied Powers who were Britain, United States, Soviet Union, and France.It was the deadliest war in human history. -
Use of first atomic bomb
American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Helped with the development of other nuclear weapons -
Period: to
Cold War
The causes of the war was waged on political, economic, propaganda fronts, and had only limited recourse to weapons. It was between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies.It stopped Communism and helped create many friendships. -
Development of the AK-47
It's one of the most widely used shoulder weapon in the world. It is reliable and very sturdy. -
When the first hydrogen bomb was first tested.
The first test took place on the small Pacific island of Elugelab at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The explosion was nicknamed "Mike Shot", and was very successful. -
Period: to
Rwandan Genocide
This was when members of the Hutu ethnic majority in the east-central African nation of Rwanda murdered as many as 800,000 people, mostly of the Tutsi minority. -
Period: to
Second Congo War
The war was driven by the trade in conflict minerals, and other things.The background of this war go back to the 1994 civil war and genocide of the Tutsi ethnic group in Rwanda by the Hutu ethnic group. It ended when the Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo took power. -
Development of M.O.A.B
The bomb makes a small blast which creates a cloud of explosive material which is then ignited, generating a devastating pressure wave.