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Throw stick and boomerang
• One boomerang that was discovered in the Carpathian Mountains in Poland was made of mammoth's tusk
• Dated to be about 30,000 years old.
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Egyptian throw stick• Egyptians used
throwing sticks to hunt ducks (1000 BC)
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Boomerang in Australia
• The oldest Australian Aboriginal boomerangs are ten thousand years old
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• Boomerang is now evolved into many different shapes.
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Chariots
• Used for warfare during the bronze and the iron ages.
• Biga required two horses, a triga three, and a quadriga required four horses.
• Invention of the spoked wheel was crucial to the development of chariots.
• The earliest spoke-wheeled chariots date to ca. 2000 BC
• Their use peaked around 1300 BC
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• The earliest fully developed true chariots dates back to 2000BC in in modern Russia and Kazakhstan.
• Chariot racing was the most popular spectator sport in ancient Rome.
• Chariots were used in battles by Egyptians, Persians, Chinese, Greeks and Indians.
• Romans used chariots mainly for racing.
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Flaming Weapons (or Thermal Weapons)
• In 332 BC Alexander the Great laid siege to Tyre, a coastal base of the Phoenicians.
• In order to bring his siege engines within range, Alexander ordered the construction of moles.
• The Tyrians responded by attacking the first mole with a large fireship, which destroyed it.
• A large horse transport ship was packed with cedar torches, pitch, dried brush and other combustibles; above this were suspended cauldrons of sulfur, bitumen and "every sort of material apt to kindle and nourish flame".[
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Flaming Arrow
• Both the Assyrians and the Judeans used fire arrows at the siege of Lachish in 701 BC.
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Flaming Arrow
• More sophisticated devices were developed by the Romans which had iron boxes and tubes which were filled with incendiary substances and attached to arrows or spears.
• These arrows needed to be fired from loose bows, since swift flight extinguished the flame.
• spears could be launched by hand or throwing machine.
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Unusual Weapons
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Unusual weapons, atl-atl
• Discovered in caves in France dating about 21,000 to 17,000 years ago.
• Tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in dart-throwing.
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• Trained soldiers could let fly 10 bolts in 15 seconds.• The small and light arrow of the comparatively
weak Chinese crossbow had little penetrative power.
• For this reason the head of the arrow was sometimes dipped in poison, in order that a slight wound might prove fatal.
The Zhuge Nu Semi-Automatic Crossbow (4th century B.C.)
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Unusual weapons, Zhua
• main use of the zhua was to pull off the shields of enemies, leaving them exposed to the clawed hand of iron.
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Unusual weapons, Nest of Bees
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• wooden container filled with tubes in the shape of a hexagon, which, when viewed from the front, gave the weapon the appearance of a large honeycomb.
• Inside each of the tubes was a rocket propelled arrow.
• The rockets launched the arrows with more power and range than that of a traditional bow.
• Up to 32 arrows could be launched from a nest at once.
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Unusual weapons, Scissor
• used in the arenas by the gladiators of the ancient Roman Empire.
• Made from hardened steel, the scissor measured up to one and a half feet long and 5-7 pounds
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Belly Bow!
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Belly Bow
• Greek name: Gastraphetes• Believed to be built around 399 BC by a team
of Greek craftsmen.• Some researchers believe it was invented
earlier.
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Unusual weapons, Scorpion Bombs
• The Ancient Iraqis would fill a terracotta jar with scorpions and then seal it.
• The jars were then thrown at the attacking army.
• The jar would break, releasing the scorpions either on the enemy soldiers or in the battlefield itself.
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And communication