Evolution of hand held weapons
Time line
Machine Gun
Spear
bow
Rifle
Musket
- The rifle was a great improvement from the musket becuse it is much easier to load and it fired at a distance of 100 yards
- Invented in the mid 19th century
- The machine gun is important because
- Most used in modern warefare
- The bow was invented 64,000 years ago in an African cave
- The bow was important to history because It enabled early humans to use elastic energy versus human strength to kill prey from a distance and it also helped people win wars later on during the middle ages.
- It is unknown how it was ceated but its complexity sugests it was not created on accident.
- The first musket was invented during th 13th century in China
- The musket was a huge leap in history because it
- The musket shot 50-75 yards
- The first spear was invented 400,000 years ago by the neanderthals
- 250,000 later the stone headed spears were invented
- The spear was important to history because if it were not invented the neanderthals would have stared to death during the ice age
- It is unknown how the spear was created but it is likely that it was discovered when a neanderthal relizied how deadly a sharp stick could be
- The spear had its golden age from