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This dimension sorts weapon systems by their basic class, a firearm, a tank, a missile or a biological weapon. Wikipedia notes that weapons range "from simple implements such as clubs and swords to complicated modern firearms, tanks, missiles and biological weapons." Browsing by weapon class keeps weapon systems of the same kind grouped together.

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Era
500 to 1499 CE 1
Weapon Type or Class

Asymmetrical composite bow

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Asymmetrical dagger

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Battle axe

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Blunt weapon (club)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Bombard (large medieval siege cannon)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

bow

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Caltrop

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Ceremonial Knife

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Chain Weapon

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Chain-Sickle

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Club

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Club-like weapon

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

crossbow

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Curved knife

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

curved sabre

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Curved single-edged sword

Weapon Type or Class
2 entries

Curved, sickle-shaped sword with a rhinoceros-horn hilt

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Curved, single-edged sword worn edge-down by mounted samurai

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Dagger

Weapon Type or Class
4 entries

Early gunpowder bomb, soft-shell grenade

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Early gunpowder firearm

Weapon Type or Class
2 entries

Execution sword

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Flexible whip-blade sword

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Hand-to-hand percussion weapon (war hammer)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Incendiary weapon

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Incendiary weapon (naphtha-based)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Infantry thrusting spear (polearm, pike)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Japanese sword

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Knife or dagger

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Ligature strangulation weapon

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Mace

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Martial arts weapon

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Multiple rocket launcher / volley gun platform

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Multipurpose tool and stabbing weapon

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

One-handed military flail (chain-and-haft striking weapon)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Polearm

Weapon Type or Class
7 entries

Polearm (bladed pole weapon)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Polearm (club-and-spear)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Polearm (curved single-edged blade)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Push dagger (katar)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Recurve composite bow (horse archery)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Repeating crossbow

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Siege cannon (bombard)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Siege engine

Weapon Type or Class
2 entries

Siege Weapon

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Single-edged infantry weapon

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Single-edged sword

Weapon Type or Class
2 entries

Spear

Weapon Type or Class
2 entries

Spear-tipped polearm with a crescent cross-hilt (ranseur)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Spiked two-handed war club

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Staff Weapon

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Steel-prod crossbow

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Straight, single-edged sword

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Sword

Weapon Type or Class
11 entries

Throwing axe

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Throwing Spear

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

thrusting sword

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Traction trebuchet (siege engine)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Two-handed anti-cavalry saber (zhanmadao)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Two-handed polearm

Weapon Type or Class
2 entries

Two-handed polearm with a cleaver-shaped axe blade

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Two-handed sword

Weapon Type or Class
2 entries

War Pick

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Whistling Arrow

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry
Sources
1. War and Military Atlas Periodization (Ruling 761)
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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