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All Medieval

Weapons fielded roughly 500 to 1500 CE: the Mongol Empire's composite recurve bow, the Kingdom of England's longbow, and the counterweight siege engines of the Crusader and Ayyubid armies. Belongs here: a weapon or weapon class fielded in the feudal, Crusader or early caliphate world. Does not belong here: an early gunpowder weapon fielded by a centralized state, which belongs to Early Modern.

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500 to 1499 CE 1

All Medieval

96 entries

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Weapon Family

Introduced Era

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Operator

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Service Status

Country of Origin

Wars Used In

Sources

1. War and Military Atlas Periodization

InteractiveAtlas owner ruling register

War and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, boundaries sentence
Boundaries: Ancient below 500 CE, Medieval 500 to 1499, Early Modern 1500 to 1774, Modern 1775 onward (the 1775 cutover, not the round year 1800, matches the American Revolutionary War already being tagged Modern in the live data).
War and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, boundaries sentence, end-year clause
Boundaries: Ancient below 500 CE, Medieval 500 to 1499, Early Modern 1500 to 1774, Modern 1775 onward (the 1775 cutover, not the round year 1800, matches the American Revolutionary War already being tagged Modern in the live data).

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Mace

Makibishi

Mangonel

Messer (sword)

Military Flail

Misericorde (weapon)

Mongol Bow

Mons Meg

Morning Star

Naft (Naphtha Incendiary Weapons)

Nagamaki

Naginata

Ngulu

Nodachi

Nunchaku

Ōdachi

Panjagan

Pernach

Pike

Podao (Chinese Polearm)

Poleaxe

Ranseur

Scimitar

Seax

Shotel

Siege Tower

Sovnya

Springald

Stiletto

Tachi

Taiaha

Takoba

Takouba

Tantō

Thunderclap Bomb

Trebuchet

Tumi

Uchigatana

Urumi

Voulge

Wallace Sword

War Hammer

War Scythe

Yari

Yumi (Japanese Longbow)

Zhanmadao