Catapult

Imagine thousands of arrows flying at the enemy, giant triple crossbows that shoot metal arrows over a mile, gunpowder-propelled missiles, a crossbow that fires like a machine gun, pinpoint accurate catapults that can take down specific targets, and bombs exploding all over the ground. One might think that this is ancient Europe just as one might think that the best warriors in the ancient world were Europeans such as Anglo-Saxons, French, and Greeks. However, this is an ancient battlefield of China

There are many "Warfare methods" created for a castle. For instance, there is the Trebuchet, there are the battlements (Merlins and Embrasures), the catapults, and much more! I'll be telling you how these warfare techniques have changed the construction of the castles!! The first thing I will be telling you about is the Trebuchet, A trebuchet is a catapult-like engine which uses a swinging arm to throw a projectile at the enemy. It is used to throw rocks (Boulders), dead animals and humans, fireballs

Although the movie Kingdom of Heaven was based on a true historical event, not all the scenes are accurate. The relationships, knights, and weapons seen in the movie do not all add up to the way things were during the Second Crusade. Hollywood movie directors are in it for the money. They want to make an action-packed movie. They do not care if everything in the movie is historically correct. Although the movie was not all historically correct, it still does a good job of portraying what happened

in a war or a battle. The names of the four main ones are the catapult hurled stones, flaming liquids, the trebuchet, and the ballista. Ballista was a very powerful one that helped the Mongols a lot, it shot large arrows that could damage buildings and structures and kill any person or animal in its path. Then the Trebuchet was a catapult powered by the drop of a heavy counterweight, threw objects faster than the torsion catapult. If your a Mongol warrior and you have those two main siege machine

The catapult was used for war though he hated war. The catapult was used to launch heavy items at the enemy. It was a developed pulley system. When you pulled the lever there were strings attached so when you cranked the handle, it would fling the ammo where you aimed it. When people went to war they wanted to cover more land during the battle. The catapult allowed them to do this to send objects farther than in the past. He not only invented a catapult, he also made a cannon (remember

ran to my F-18 Hornet, and climbed into the cockpit. Wasp ran after me, and climbed into the back. I turned on the ignition and looked at my flight checklist. Once I was ready, I taxied the plane to the aircraft carrier catapult and the crew positioned the plane and put the catapult on. Then I was signaled to push to full power. I slowly pushed the throttle

16th Century English Weapons During the 16th century England and much of Europe found itself in turmoil and in a constant state of war. The outbreak of fighting led to the invention and development of new weapons and the growth and change of weapons of old. The development of weapons was a trademark of the time, with a sort of renaissance, or re-birth in the field of weaponry (Miller). The technology was highlighted by the invention of gunpowder by the Chinese which eventually found its

the reins from the boy, he quickly mounted and rode out to join the men who were waiting for him. It was no secret that Lord Nightburn planned to use catapults in the siege of Whitefield since they lined the streets of Banniff. Riding up to the lieutenant left in charge, he exchanged words, then he shouted the order, resulting with the catapults beginning to move out of the city. A large detail of soldiers, perhaps, fifty in number, rode on either side of the devices, with an equal number bringing

first war, Heiro II, king of Syracuse and a close friend of Archimedes, asked Archimedes to build a defense system for Syracuse out of concern for a second battle between Rome and Carthage (Ball, 64). In response to Hiero’s wish, Archimedes invented catapults which were

protect themselves and to fight with. One of the most common weapons was the sword. They used the sword for fighting in battles, this wasn’t the only weapon they used. They also used the very first crossbows and regular bow and arrow. They used catapults to launch big rocks and anything to crush buildings and people. Farming in the medieval period was interesting they did something new almost every month. January and February, they repaired hunting nets, sharpened tools, gather fire wood cut firewood