What was the first country to have a flag and why?

Question

Which country was the first to have a flag?And why did they make flags anyway,all they need to do is say the name of the country?

Answer 1

The history of flags dates back more than 4,000 years. Ancient flags, known as “vexilloids,” meaning “guide,” were metal or wooden poles that featured a unique carving at the top of the pole.

The first known metal flag came from Iran and dates back to 3,000 BC. Evidence of flags has also been found on ancient Greek coins and Egyptian tomb carvings. About 2,000 years ago, people began decorating these ancient vexilloids with fabric and other materials making them more similar to the modern flags we use today.

Flags are generally used to give people information. Knights, for example, carried flags in battle so they could distinguish friend from enemy. This was a good way to identify people covered in heavy armor.

Answer 2

Some believe flags originated in China, while others hold that the Roman Empire's vexillum was the first true flag. Originally, the standards of the Roman legions were not flags, but symbols like the eagle of Augustus Caesar's Xth legion; this eagle would be placed on a staff for the standard-bearer to hold up during battle. But a military unit from Scythia had for a standard a dragon with a flexible tail which would move in the wind; the legions copied this; eventually all the legions had flexible standards — our modern-day flag.

During the Middle Ages, flags were used mainly during battles to identify individual leaders: in Europe the knights, in Japan the samurai, and in China the generals under the imperial army

Answer 3

The other answers are confusing flags with banners. Let me set it straight:

The oldest flag (as we know them today) is the flag of Denmark.

In ancient times, the Greeks, the Chinese and the Romans were using banners mostly in the army.

We don't know which civilization used them first and where.

The difference of them is that a flag has a certain size, symbol or colors. A banner was coming in different sizes and colors.

Answer 4

Nobody knows; it was a long time ago. Flags were used to organize troops in battle during a war when the fastest communication means was a man on horseback.

Answer 5

Persians were the first people to use flag on the first day of spring.

Answer 6

It might actually be impossible to say. Government authorities have identified themselves with symbols and emblems for more than 6000 years. Whether they used fabrics as standards is impossible to say since fabrics disintegrate in a short time.

The Romans had standards with their military units, and when the Egyptians fought the Hittites in the Battle of Kadesh, they fought in four distinctly identified groupings and visualized the movements of each enough to write a detailed blow-by-blow description of the battle. They had to have had some kind of visual standard in use for this to happen, and the Hittites had to have recognized them for what they were to have beaten them so badly.

Answer 7

Flags in early times designated tribes or clans and were used in battles or large gatherings as rallying points.

Answer 8

I don't know the year but I remember watching the History channel. I think it was in Medieval times to identify the different sides of the enemy during their wars.

Answer 9

I really want to see all the answers to this one.

Answer 10

sound like a kid up late doing homework that should have been done earlier :)