Weapons

 Hello! Today I will tell a little about medieval weapons. Recently I came across an interesting article, and that's what I found out...

 

The composition of the weapon and its development depended on the geographical position of a particular state. It is possible to single out the main groups of countries, due to the cultural ties between which their weapons complexes were similar and developed together.Now more about countries

    Europe. Originally developed largely thanks to the Roman Empire, a European arsenal is being formed, influenced by West Asian weapons (sabers, firearms). This includes Russia.
    Western Asia. In particular, it includes the Arab countries, Turkey. Developed under the influence of Byzantium and the Asian countries.
    Byzantium. It is the heir of the Roman Empire, because of the characteristics of the weapons can not be attributed to Europe or Asia.
    East Asia. This, in particular, Japan, China, Mongolia, Korea, Vietnam, India. They form an autonomous armament complex, in particular, it is here that firearms are invented. Later, European travelers had little influence on the weapons of this region.
    America. The arms of the American Indians developed autonomously and in isolation from the influence of other regions.Medieval weapons are classified according to the principle of action. It can be divided into cold, gunshot, manual throwing and mechanical throwing machines. In turn, cold weapons are divided into weapons of melee and ranged combat, and also classified by the nature of the impact.

    The impact weapon is designed to inflict blows of crushing action due to its impulse with a shock part of a large area 
    Stitching - to apply jabs to the point of the weapon, due to high pressure on a small area. 
    Slashing - for applying cutting shocks with the tip of the tip, due to the high pressure 
   The piercing-cutting weapon has a tip intended for applying both jabs and chopping strokes.

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Melee weapons
It is classified according to the nature of its impact.
Impact weapon
Dagger, Pernach, Toporik, Mace
Shestop and Pernachi
    Weapons of shock-crushing action 

 Mace - shock with a hard peg attached to the handle    Cantilever (weapon) - a mace with a cubic top
            Bustyhead or Bourgeois - equipped with spines or something similar
                Morgenstern - the pommel is a ball with long powerful spikes
        Cudgel - homogeneous with a thickened end
            Ban (weapon) is a Chinese club, sometimes two-sided (a pole with hoops wrapped around its ends)
            Yoribo - Japanese, octahedral
            Tonfa - Japanese with a second perpendicular handle
            Chervleny viscous - Russian, poured by lead
        Oslop - especially heavy, with reinforced metal impact part or all-metal
        Palica - homogeneous metal
            Kolben - knightly, multifaceted
            Tetsubo - Japanese, round or polyhedral
        Pernach is a mixture of mace and ax, the shock part in sharpened plates
       

     Shestop - when only 6 special plates
        Chain - with movable impact part
            Kisten - a kettlebell on a leash or chain, often to a hilt
                Gasilo - Russian without handle
                Threshing (weapons) - Czech two-handed with heavy weight
                Chain morning star - Kettenmorgenstern
            Nunchaku or Erzegun - Two connected short sticks
            Shao-chie-gong - Two tied sticks: long + short (shock)
            San-chie-gong - Three consecutively connected sticks
        Six - shock stick without weighting of the shock part
            Europe
                Gupti - in the form of a crutch
                Quarterstaff - English, about 2.2 m3
                Makila - Basque, with a point
                Russian club (staff) - about 1.7 m
                Shalapuga - Russian, with bent handle
            Asia
                Bo (staff) - Japanese, from 1.5 to 3 m
                    Rokusyakubo - 1,8 m
                Gyokagi - Japanese, inside the chain with a hook
                Guai - Chinese, T-shaped, 1.2 m
                Gun - Chinese flexible battle pole
                Damojan - Chinese, L-shaped, 1.1 m
                Jo (weapons) - Japanese, about 1.2 m
                Nava (weapons) - Indian, with tips at the ends
                Otta - Indian, S-shaped, 0.6 m

                Tougan - Chinese, in the growth of a man, with sharpened ends
                Changbon - Korean, in human height
    Weapon with a punch
        Battle sickle - piercing and cutting weapon
            Kama (sickle) - Japanese
            Tsaolyan - Chinese
        Battle hammer - hammer with a narrow end
            Klevets - small with a sharp end
            Chekan - more slander and not pointed
            The Lucerne hammer - looks like a chisel, but on a handle of enormous length

Stabbing weapon

Rogatins and Snaunya

Sword

Trident

Sasumata, Hoko, Nagamaki

    Blade
        Dirk - Stabbing Dagger
        Konchar - with a narrow and sharp four-edged blade up to 1.5 m
            Estock - two-handed

        Rapier - with bayonet-shaped narrow and thin blade up to 1.3 m
            Akokiy - Spanish
            Daab - Thai
        Stiletto is a dagger with a narrow blade without blades
            Miserikord - type of stylet
            Yoroi dosi - Japanese style
            Kansashi - Japanese female stylet
        Sword - with a flexible blade, often round, but sometimes with a blade, about 1 m long
            Haudegen - European single-edged
            Stossdegen - European, only pricking
            Estocad - French
    Polearm
        Spear - sharp pointed tip on the handle of a long length
            Alshpis - spear with a subulate tip
            The Contarion is a long Byzantine peak (2 - 3 m long), used by soldiers of the first rows of infantry units to fight the enemy cavalry
            Peak - with a narrow or small tip, a thin long shaft
    Lance? - English Cavalry Spear 

 Protazan - about 2.5 m with two plates on the sides of the ti 

   Lange - tip plates are small in size and are one part 

  Rancon - short version
                Ransor - with a wide tip
                Espanton - mainly the front
            Rogatina - with a thick shaft, a wide tip, often with crossbeams at the base
        Bagore - spear paired with a hook
            Guizarma - Italian, with a blade on the hook
        Jari - Japanese spears, similar to the multitude of teeth, and to the rockets
            Hawko - early type, with three tips around the main and spines
        Combat forks - a variant of conventional forks
            The wolf shark? - Far Eastern, with serrated pins from the tip to the middle of the shaft           
 Two-tooth fork with two teeth

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 all information about weapons was taken from the site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medieval_weapons