The Age of Pike and Shot

By Tyler L and Bennett K

Gunpowder Cannon Pike Decline of the Knight Hundred Years War Fall of Constantinople

Background: The transition from Medieval Warfare

Main Powers:

Ottoman Empire Habsburgs France Italy/Pope England

Other areas: China, Japan, Persia Events: Capitalist Revolution, Protestant

Reformation, rise of monarchy, centralization of the state, Scientific Revolution

Background: Europe in this period

Swiss Tactics Phalanx

The Pike

Cannon-Field/Siege Arquebus Matchlock Musket Deployment/Uses Maurice of Orange

Firearms

Types Uses/Weapons Effects/Drawbacks

Cavalry

Naval Innovations

Army Size Role of Mercenaries Conscription Command-Lack of unity Pillaging Disease

Army Makeup/Recruitment

Battle strategies Dutch vs. Spanish Sieges/Forts Methods of warfare Nature of Wars

Tactics

Italian Wars War of the Schmalkaldic League Dutch War of Independence French Wars of Religion Habsburg-Ottoman Wars Thirty Years War English Civil War/War of the Three Kingdoms 9 Years War/Wars of Louis XIV Great Northern War

Major Wars

Major Generals

Sweden/Saxony vs. Holy Roman Empire Commanders-Protestants: Gustavus Adolphus,

Bernhard of Weimar Imperials: Wallenstein Prelude

The Battle of Lutzen

The Battle

Army transition-Mercanaries to National Artillery Improvements Flintlock Musket/Bayonet-The end of the

Pikeman Increased army size Use of communications/supply lines

The End of the Era

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