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.

Egyptian throw stick• Egyptians used

throwing sticks to hunt ducks (1000 BC)

Boomerang in Australia

• The oldest Australian Aboriginal boomerangs are ten thousand years old

• Boomerang is now evolved into many different shapes.

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

• 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.

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".[

Flaming Arrow

• Both the Assyrians and the Judeans used fire arrows at the siege of Lachish in 701 BC.

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.

Unusual Weapons

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.

• 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.)

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.

Unusual weapons, Nest of Bees

• 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.

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

Belly Bow!

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.

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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