WarfareTImeline

By daddyhaas28
  • 3000 BCE

    First bow/arrow that humans used

    A powerful long wooden bow, used by drawing back with your hand.It brought a good weapon to war.
  • 3000 BCE

    When horses first demsticated

    Horses brang transportation to war.
  • 1180 BCE

    Invention of long bow

    A powerful long wooden bow, used by drawing back with your hand.It brought a good weapon to war.
  • Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE

    Peloponnesian war

    Control for the delian league.
  • Period: 264 BCE to 146 BCE

    Punic Wars

    The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage, at the time were some of the biggest wars ever fought.
  • 300

    Development of trebuchet

    They used these to throw bombs on their opponents.
  • 800

    Invention of gun powder

    Every weapon in warfare used gunpowder from the time it was invited.
  • Period: 1095 to 1492

    Crusades

    The Crusades were organized by western European Christians after centuries of Muslim wars of expansion. Their primary objectives were to stop the expansion of Muslim states, to reclaim for Christianity the Holy Land in the Middle East, and to recapture territories that had formerly been Christian.
  • 1200

    Invention of hand cannon

    First real gun. People could fire shots using gunpowder and a bullet.

  • Invention of flintlock musket

    A gun that could shoot powerful shots and the only way to use was by pulling the lock back

  • First submarine

    A submarine can stay underwater of an extensive period of time and can shoot missiles underwater.
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    Thirty Years War

    The Thirty Years' War was a war fought primarily in Central Europe.It resulted in eight million fatalities not only from military engagements but also from violence, famine, and plague.
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    English Civil War

    The English Civil Wars stemmed from conflict between Charles I and Parliament over an Irish insurrection. The first war was settled with Oliver Cromwell's victory for Parliamentary forces at the 1645 Battle of Naseby.
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    Napoleonic Wars

    The Napoleonic Wars were wars which were fought during the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte over France. They started after the French Revolution ended and Napoleon Bonaparte became powerful in France in November 1799.

  • Development of revolver handgun

    This gun could hold multiple bullets in a chamber at a time. This was good for warfare because people could fire off shots a lot faster.
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    Taiping Rebellion

    Hong Xiuquan, led the Taiping rebellion against the Qing dynasty from 1850 to 1864. He established Nanjing as the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
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    American Civil war

    Fight between north and the south to free slaves.

  • First machine gun.

    These guns could shoot off bullets rapidly and a lot of them. A clip could have a 100 bullets and fire off in seconds.
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    Boxer Rebellion

    Boxer Rebellion , a Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fist, led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there.
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    World War 1

    Started because of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. Alliances, imperialism, militarism, and nationalism were also part of it.

  • First tank

    The tank was huge and could run over anything, It was used for running over their opponents barriers and firing huge shots with huge bullets. Tanks are very hard to destroy too.
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    Russian Civil War

    The Russian Civil War was to tear Russia apart for three years – between 1918 and 1921. The civil war occurred because after November 1917, many groups had formed that opposed Lenin's Bolsheviks.

  • First fighter aircraft

    FIghter jets were the first fighting aircraft. They were fast and could drop huge bombs on there opponets.
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    World War Two

    America joined the war after the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor.

  • Use of first atomic bomb

    American dropped the first atomic bomb in Japan killing thousands and the people who did survive are still having effects to this day from it. This is the most powerful weapon in warfare in my opinion.

  • Development of Ak-47

    An assault rifle that can shoot bullets and a lot of them really fast. Is a type of machine gun just not as big as the first machine gun, because the first machine gun you couldn't even hold. This gun you could and was very powerful.
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    Cold War

    Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons.

  • Hydrogen bomb first tested

    A heavy form of hydrogen that releases a powerful blast of radiation. This can kill people then, but also later in life; it's very painful.
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    Second Congo War

    The war officially ended in July 2003, when the Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo took power. By 2008, the war and its aftermath had caused 5.4 million deaths, principally through disease and starvation, making the Second Congo War the deadliest conflict worldwide since World War II.

  • Mother of all bombs

    Most powerful non nuclear bomb in history. Can kill so many in war. America first used this in 2017 on Iraq.