A weapon is a tool used to apply force for the purpose of hunting, attack, self-defense, or defense in combat.
Weapons can be as simple as a club, or as complex as an intercontinental ballistic missile, and include those that damage individual or group morale.
Very simple weapon use has been seen in some communities of chimpanzees., leading to speculation that early hominids may have first used weapons five million years ago. but these would prob...
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A weapon is a tool used to apply force for the purpose of hunting, attack, self-defense, or defense in combat.
Weapons can be as simple as a club, or as complex as an intercontinental ballistic missile, and include those that damage individual or group morale.
Very simple weapon use has been seen in some communities of chimpanzees., leading to speculation that early hominids may have first used weapons five million years ago. but these would probably have been wooden clubs, spears and unshaped stones—none of which would leave an unambiguous record.
The earliest unambiguous examples of weapons are:
Ancient weapons were initially simply improvements of the late neolithic versions, but then significant improvement in materials and techniques created a series of revolutions in military technology:
In the Europe warfare in the middle ages was dominated by elite groups of knights supported by massed infantry (both in combat and ranged roles) and by sieges which involved varying siege...
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