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3500 BCE
When humans first used the bow/arrow?
The bow/arrow was the first projectile weapon. -
3000 BCE
When did horse were first domesticated?
First thing to help go places faster. -
Period: 1300 BCE to
Trojan Wars
Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. The war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature, most notably Homer's Iliad -
Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE
The Peloponnesian War
The Peloponnesian War was an ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases. -
300 BCE
The development of the trebuchet
Pretty much this first catapult. -
Period: 264 BCE to 146 BCE
Punic Wars
a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage -
900
The invention of gunpowder
Helps with guns. -
900
The development of the first handcannon
They were the first firearms used during combat in recorded history. -
Period: 1095 to 1492
Crusades
The crusades were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best-known crusades are the campaigns in the eastern Mediterranean aimed at recovering the Holy Land from Muslim rule. The term crusade is now also applied to other church-sanctioned and even non-religious campaigns. -
1180
The invention of the longbow
Incredibly strong piece of wood roughly 6 feet tall and 5/8 inch wide -
Period: 1337 to 1453
One Hundred Years War
The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from by 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. Each side drew many allies into the war. -
1500
The development of the matchlock gun
Igniting gunpowder -
Period: 1519 to 1521
Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire
Cortés helped old enemies of the Aztecs defeat them in one of the most important events in the Spanish colonization of the Americas -
Period: to
Thirty Years War
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. -
Period: to
English Civil War
The English Civil War was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists principally over the manner of England's governance -
The development of the first submarine
a modified rowboat -
Period: to
Napoleonic Wars
he Napoleonic Wars were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by the United Kingdom -
The development of the revolver handgun
Revolving gun -
Period: to
The Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion, which is also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a massive rebellion or civil war that was waged in China -
Period: to
The American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States, between the North and the South. The Civil War began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people. -
The invention of the first iron-clad warship
warship for operation on the rivers -
The invention of the first machine gun
first Gatling guns were used in the American Civil War. -
Period: to
Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising, or Yihetuan Movement was an anti-imperialist, anti-foreign, and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China -
Period: to
World War I
World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe -
The development of the first tank.
Used on the battlefields, many broke down -
Period: to
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was to tear Russia apart for three years. The civil war occurred because after November 1917, many groups had formed that opposed Lenin's Bolsheviks. These groups included monarchists, militarists, and, for a short time, foreign nations. -
Period: to
World War II
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis -
Period: to
Rwandan Genocide
The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, was a mass slaughter of Tutsi, Twa, and moderate Hutu in Rwanda -
The use of the first atomic bomb
United States dropped its first . The “Little Boy” exploded with about 13 kilotons of force, leveling five square miles of the city and killing 80,000 people instantly. -
Period: to
Cold War
geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union with its satellite states, and the United States with its allies after World War II. -
When the first hydrogen bomb was first tested
The first series of thermonuclear tests conducted by the United States. -
The development of the anti-satellite laser
Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) are space weapons designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic military purposes. -
Period: to
Second Congo War
he Second Congo War began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, little more than a year after the First Congo War, and involved some of the same issues. The war officially ended in July 2003, when the Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo took power -
The development of the M.O.A.B. (Mother of all bombs)
Is a large-yield bomb, developed for the United States military.