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Although archery probably dates back to the Stone Age. It has help us hunt for food.
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Humans acquire their most important single ally from the animal kingdom when they domesticate the horse
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Matchlock, in firearms, a device for igniting gunpowder developed in the 15th century, a major advance in the manufacture of small arms
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The longbow was invented by the Celts in Wales
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The crusades were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period.
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Gunpowder was invented in 9th-century China and spread throughout most parts of Eurasia by the end of the 13th century
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Hand cannons were rudimentary and brutish, but they were the first firearms used during combat in recorded history
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The Peloponnesian War was an ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta
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The traction trebuchet is believed to be an ancient war engine which was invented in China
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The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage.
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But in some ways it is more helpful to view this longest of European wars as one phase of an even longer struggle between England and France
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Spanish conquistadors, led by Hernán Cortés, overthrew the Aztec Empire
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Starting as a battle among the Catholic and Protestant states that formed the Holy Roman Empire.
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William Bourne drafted the first design for a submersible craft.
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The English Civil War was a series of civil wars and political machinations
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The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts fought between France under the leadership of Napoleon Bonaparte and a number of European nations
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Samuel Colt submitted a British patent for his revolver
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radical political and religious upheaval that was probably the most important event in China in the 19th century.
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The Civil War began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people.
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the day after the Virginia sank two Union ships, the ironclads met in battle for the first time at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
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The first practical self-powered machine gun by Sir Hiram Maxim.
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The Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising, or Yihetuan Movement was an anti-imperialist, anti-foreign, and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China
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World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918
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The first offensive using tanks took place during the Battle of the Somme.
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The Russian Civil War was to tear Russia apart for three years
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The vast majority of the world's countries including all the great powers eventually formed two opposing military alliances
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The United States dropped its first atomic bomb from a B-29 bomber plane called the Enola Gay on Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union with its satellite states, and the United States with its allies after World War II.
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The first series of thermonuclear tests conducted by the United States
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The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, was a mass slaughter of Tutsi, Twa, and moderate Hutu in Rwanda
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little more than a year after the First Congo War, and involved some of the same issues