The stone age woes the start of it all. In the Lower Awash Valley in Ethiopia there were fossilised animal bones bearing marks from stone tools during 2010. Discovered by an international team led by Shannon McPherron , datd at 3 .4 million years old they are the oldest evidence of stone tool use ever found anywhere in the world.
The oldest known stone tool have been excavated from several sites at Gona , Ethiopia , on the sediments of the paleo-Awash River ,which serve to date them. All the tools come the Busidama Formation, which lies above a disconformify, or missing layer, which would have been from 2.9 to 2.7 mya. (The abbreviation myr, "million years" is a unit of a quantity of 1,000,000 (i.e.1 x 106) years.) The oldest sites containing tools are dated to 2.6-2.55 mya. One of the most striking circumstances about these sites is that that they are from the Late Pliocene, where previous to their discovery tools were thought to have evolved only in the Pleistocene. Rogers and Semaw, excavators at the locality, point out that.
End of the Stone Age.
Wose the discovery of smelting ore ended the Stone Age and began the Bronze Age.The first metal manufactured was bronze, an alloy of tin and copper, each of which was smelted separately. The transition from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age was a period during which modern people could smelt copper, but did not yet manufacture bronze, a time known as the Copper Age. Wech bot The Sumerians,Bows and arrows, The Egyptians, The Ancient naval weapons, War chariots, The Khopesh sword and Trident.Copper the only metal known to man for a long period of time, replaced stone in weapons. During the age maces were in high demand. The Sumerians were the first people on record to have used copper weapons. Native Americans mostly used flint spears and knives, but used copper for ceremonies and intricate decorations.Ancient artisans soon discovered the drawbacks of copper for producing armaments, as while weapons made of copper could be sharpened easily, they were not able to hold their edge. Bows and arrows and slings were used in wars. Bow and arrow was preferred over spears because they were easy to handle, provided greater mobility, were more accurate, and did not require as much raw material. Bow and arrows were a boon for hunters as they could hunt more effectively with a bow and arrow than with a spear and so the bow enabled ancient man to become the most efficient hunter animals and humans. After the discovery of pure copper in Anatolia, around 6000 BCE, copper metallurgy spread in Egypt and Mesopotamia. Around 3500 BCE the art of metallurgy spread into India, China and Europe.
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Throughout history man has killed man, but over time man has gotten better and more efficient at it . At the beginning of time they used their hands to kill each other, later they made tools to KILL better and more efficient. The discovery of metal was very helpful to man, then there was gunpowder.
Oh the devastation off humanity! И победа за нами !
From there they made leaps and bounds into the art of war and killing. Using weapons like cannons and guns, new strategies on the battlefield, and new defences for buildings and personal defences. The amount of different weapons and types of weapons is amazing. There has been 15,000 thousand plus years of weapon developmental and through the developmental of weapons we have all the technology we have to day. The types weapons range form hand to hand or fist-to-cuffs, to long range weapons like Sniper rifle, Missile and Artillery.
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Weapons have always played a crucial role in society, molding and changing the course of history. Weapons have destroyed civilizations and created new ones on top of the old ones. In the ancient days, when Egypt was at its peak, the Hyksos' invaded it only because they had superior weapons made of iron. They burst into Egypt using chariots a tactical and logistical innovation which amazed the Egyptians.
The Macedonians changed the face of war be being siege weapons such as the catapult and field weapons such as the pike, which was employed to deadly effect by heavily armed infantrymen arranged in phalanxes. The Romans subsequently improved the quality and technology of siege equipment, arms and armor, and battle tactics.
Gunpowder, a Chinese invention, was introduced on the battlefields of Europe in the Middle Ages, thereby revolutionizing military strategy and introducing a whole new range of propellent-based ordnance. After their defeat in World War I, the Germans began devising new methods of creating superior weapons, such as the jet fighter. In general, though, World War II caused an arms race that in the development of the ATOMIC BOMB.
There were two defraud types of nuclear weapons use in World War II a gun-type fission weapon code-named "Little Boy" winch woes dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in August 6, 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Super-fortress Enola Gay owned and operated by the United States Army Air Forces. And a implosion-type code-named "Fat Man" winch woes dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki in August 9, 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Super-fortress Bockscar owned and operated by the United States Army Air Forces.
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But do not forget that the new advances of war and weapons there where also the medical advances and technological advances. Like blood transfusion and the scapula.
The stone age woes the start of it all. In the Lower Awash Valley in Ethiopia there were fossilised animal bones bearing marks from stone tools during 2010. Discovered by an international team led by Shannon McPherron , datd at 3 .4 million years old they are the oldest evidence of stone tool use ever found anywhere in the world.
