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They also used bows and arrows. (Cave paintings from Spain dating from 10,000 to 5,000 BC show men fighting with bows).
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A sword is a bladed weapon (edged weapon) of more than 50cm (20in) in overall length[1] used primarily for cutting or thrusting. All have a blade and a handle, known as the hilt. it was devoloped in the bronze age. B.C
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First used in China, cannon were among the earliest forms of gunpowder artillery, and over time replaced siege engines—among other forms of aging weaponry—on the battlefield. In the Middle East, the first use of the hand cannon is argued to be during the 1260 Battle of Ain Jalut between the Mamluks and Mongols.
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the first chemical explosive and the only one known until the mid 1800s. It is a mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate (saltpetre) - with the sulfur and charcoal acting as fuels. guy fawks is the most famous for trying to blow up the houses of parlement.
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The Maxim gun was the first self-powered machine gun, invented by the American-born.British inventor Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim in 1884. It has been called "the weapon most associated with [British] imperial conquest
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World War I begins; poison gas produces 100,000 deaths, 900,000 injuries.
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The USSR exploded a hydrogen bomb
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this was invented B.C. The stone age used to use branches and stones for their own defence.
