I'm doing a paper on weapons, armor, and such from the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.?

Question

Is there any information I could use to make it more interesting?

Answer 1

to build on the answer below.....how about arrow heads....

stone ones....there are a number of different types btw...

Bronze....

Iron

stone is heaviest....so range would be effected as would its ability to wound at longer ranges....

Bronze would be about the same weight but would be more effective against armor.....especially hard leather armor...


Iron would be lightest and could be very effective against armor..especially plated or chainmail....

Swords would me much the same....you might even migrate to steel......by adding carbon.........

Cannons.....

The first ones were like bells and shot round rocks....

Then bronze cannons were cast but flaws would cause them to burst when overloaded. There were limits to how accurate they could be cast and how tight the tolerances could be.

When Iron came along, we also got the lathe...and worm gear...this allowed tighter tolerances...iron was stronger....this allowed longer range and better accuracy...

Answer 2

Compare & Contrast is always a nice set up.

Stone, Brone and Iron all have certain weapons that can be made from them and certain ones that can't. Identify these.

Then take something that can be made from all three (say, an axe). In what ways is an axe similar in all three materials? In what ways is it different?

Are there advantages to a stone axe over a bronze axe? Why or why not?

What skills are needed to create each one.

Good luck!