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Weapons timeline
c. 15,000 years ago
The principle of the bow and arrow is developed, with yew or elm for the bow and points of flint on the arrows
c. 2500 BC
The treasures found in the royal cemetery at Ur include a depiction of soldiers in copper helmets, armed with battleaxes
c. 1800 BC
In Mesopotamia the new weapon is a light chariot, drawn by two horses
c. 1500 BC
The composite bow, accurate to 200 yards, is used by warriors in Asia fighting from chariots and on horseback
c. 1100 BC
The Phoenicians develop the war galley, with a sharp battering ram in the bow
c. -850 BC
The Assyrians develop the battering ram into a mobile and powerful siege engine
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