Informative Speech On Medieval Catapults

Today I’m going to tell you about Medieval catapults, crossbow, swords, and maces. They helped people in war a long time ago. I hope that you will like my project, and I learned a lot. This is about weapons.

The weapons were used in the European warfare. There was a weapon that could cause havoc and destruction. The Onager Catapult would throw the big rocks into the castle to break the stuff inside. They even sometimes used missiles. Castles and fortified walled cities were common during this period, and catapults were used as siege weapons against them. The Viking siege of Paris in 856 A.D saw the employment by both sides of virtually every siege craft known to the classical world. There were a variety of catapults to little effect

This machine was designed to throw heavy projectiles from a "bowl-shaped bucket at the end of its arm". Mangonels were mostly used for “firing various missiles at fortresses, castles, and cities. The missiles with a range of up to 1300 feet. These missiles included anything from stones to excrement to rotting carcasses. Mangonels were relatively simple to construct, and eventually wheels were added to increase mobility. He Greek Dionysius the Elder of Syracuse, who was looking to develop a new type of weapon, invented the catapult about 400 BCE. Also there were other weapons like hammer ,axe , or a mace. Out of those weapons the mace was the most common to use. Sometimes they even

Some swords had one blade or many blades on them like a tomahawk . Swords were the most common weapon in the medieval times. The precise definition of the term varies with the historical epoch or the geographical region under consideration. The blade can be straight or curved. Thrusting swords have a pointed tip on the blade, and tend to be straighter slashing swords have a sharpened cutting edge on one or both sides of the blade, and are more likely to be curved. Many swords are made for both thrusting and slashing. The thrusting swords such as the rapier and eventually the smallsword were designed to impale their targets quickly. The use of a sword is known as swordsmanship or, in a modern context, as fencing. In the Early Modern period, western sword design diverged into roughly two forms, the thrusting swords and the sabers.

I hope that you liked our project.The catapults,swords,mace/flail and crossbows were extremely important back then during war. Hope you have a good rest of you day and good luck seeing more projects.