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Throw stick and boomerang • One boomerang that was discovered in the Carpathian Mountains in Poland was made of mammoth's tusk • Dated to be about 30, 000 years old.

Egyptian throw stick • Egyptians used throwing sticks to hunt ducks (1000 BC)

Boomerang in Australia • The oldest Australian Aboriginal boomerangs are ten thousand years old

• Boomerang is now evolved into many different shapes.

Chariots • Used for warfare during the bronze and the iron ages. • Biga required two horses, a triga three, and a quadriga required four horses. • Invention of the spoked wheel was crucial to the development of chariots. • The earliest spoke-wheeled chariots date to ca. 2000 BC • Their use peaked around 1300 BC

• The earliest fully developed true chariots dates back to 2000 BC in in modern Russia and Kazakhstan. • Chariot racing was the most popular spectator sport in ancient Rome. • Chariots were used in battles by Egyptians, Persians, Chinese, Greeks and Indians. • Romans used chariots mainly for racing.

Flaming Weapons (or Thermal Weapons) • In 332 BC Alexander the Great laid siege to Tyre, a coastal base of the Phoenicians. • In order to bring his siege engines within range, Alexander ordered the construction of moles. • The Tyrians responded by attacking the first mole with a large fireship, which destroyed it. • A large horse transport ship was packed with cedar torches, pitch, dried brush and other combustibles; above this were suspended cauldrons of sulfur, bitumen and "every sort of material apt to kindle and nourish flame". [

Flaming Arrow • Both the Assyrians and the Judeans used fire arrows at the siege of Lachish in 701 BC.

Flaming Arrow • More sophisticated devices were developed by the Romans which had iron boxes and tubes which were filled with incendiary substances and attached to arrows or spears. • These arrows needed to be fired from loose bows, since swift flight extinguished the flame. • spears could be launched by hand or throwing machine.

Unusual Weapons

Unusual weapons, atl-atl • Discovered in caves in France dating about 21, 000 to 17, 000 years ago. • Tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in dart-throwing.

The Zhuge Nu Semi-Automatic Crossbow (4 th century B. C. ) • Trained soldiers could let fly 10 bolts in 15 seconds. • The small and light arrow of the comparatively weak Chinese crossbow had little penetrative power. • For this reason the head of the arrow was sometimes dipped in poison, in order that a slight wound might prove fatal.

Unusual weapons, Zhua • main use of the zhua was to pull off the shields of enemies, leaving them exposed to the clawed hand of iron.

Unusual weapons, Nest of Bees

• wooden container filled with tubes in the shape of a hexagon, which, when viewed from the front, gave the weapon the appearance of a large honeycomb. • Inside each of the tubes was a rocket propelled arrow. • The rockets launched the arrows with more power and range than that of a traditional bow. • Up to 32 arrows could be launched from a nest at once.

Unusual weapons, Scissor • used in the arenas by the gladiators of the ancient Roman Empire. • Made from hardened steel, the scissor measured up to one and a half feet long and 5 -7 pounds

Belly Bow!

Belly Bow • Greek name: Gastraphetes • Believed to be built around 399 BC by a team of Greek craftsmen. • Some researchers believe it was invented earlier.

Unusual weapons, Scorpion Bombs • The Ancient Iraqis would fill a terracotta jar with scorpions and then seal it. • The jars were then thrown at the attacking army. • The jar would break, releasing the scorpions either on the enemy soldiers or in the battlefield itself.

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