0:26 That's not how they were used... the wooden magazines were not swapped out, but constantly reloaded by feeding from the top -- so it could fire literally until you ran out of bolts.
@RussellBallangarry4 ай бұрын
That is true mate, good pont out
@FriedPi-mc5yt7 ай бұрын
Slingshots are in no way comparable to a sling.
@incognitones56046 ай бұрын
I agree. Slingshots is not an ancient weapon, as it requires elastics.
@MMSZoli6 ай бұрын
but slings could be a very efficient wepon, especially if the enemy has no helmet and armor
@NaterNorris5 ай бұрын
Yeah a sling is a rope that you spin....
@lancethrustworthy5 ай бұрын
Except in name and projectiles and being one-man operated.
@FriedPi-mc5yt5 ай бұрын
@@lancethrustworthy They use different projectiles and their names are different. Slingshot - Sling - Different names. You can’t easily use a rock in a slingshot because you risk damage to the elastic band. Slingshots use marbles or ball bearings (round projectiles). A sling uses rocks or an oblong lead pellet.
@donnysandley46497 ай бұрын
Big difference between a sling and a child's sling shot
@destonlee28387 ай бұрын
It eases my mind that the content creator isn't getting paid to produce this gradesschool level analysis.
@Davidleem16 ай бұрын
A slingshot is not the same as a sling.
@steve257826 ай бұрын
Slingshots are toys, slings are weapons. The sling is just two strips of leather connected to a leather pouch containing a stone. The slinger held the ends of both strips and whirled the stone over his head, then released one of the strips at exactly the right time to hurl the stone at the target. Expert slingers could hit birds in flight, and the stone hit with the force of a 45-caliber bullet.
@markgarin63556 ай бұрын
Not sure why these two got combined, they have little to do with each other....
@ulrichkalber90396 ай бұрын
i agree that it is totally different weapons,however slingshots are not (always) toys. They come in different versions some of which are deadly weapons.
@tucanman97755 ай бұрын
ya they show a drawing of a slingshot with a rubber band how did they get that might as well be a wrist rocket with surgical tubing whats next the chinese had potatoe guns
@punchdrunkatheist5 ай бұрын
@@tucanman9775I mean... An ancient Chinese potato gun would be amazing.
@garymiller59377 ай бұрын
I would hate to face anyone wielding any of these weapons! Most of them are downright frightening! 😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤
@TshenQin6 ай бұрын
On the Gladius, the Legionairs would carry them on the right side, and the Centurions would carry them on the left side. In close formation it was advantageous to have the sword right so it could not entangle in the shield, or hit the man to the left with the scabbard while you tried a cross body draw. This was also handy if you the enemy pressed against your shield, leaving you no room to draw it easily. As its a short sword, drawing it from the right is no problem.
@warrenwhite61596 ай бұрын
i cant belive he thinks they were refering to a rubber sling shot .
@just_kos997 ай бұрын
I bought a leather sling at a sci-fi convention like the one at 17:05 and got pretty darned good with it! I could hit the target (tree trunk) from a good distance away even. Thought I could carry something like it if I ever got caught out in the wild, for nailing squirrels and rabbits. Lost it some time later, sadly enough, but I'd love to find one again and re-learn my technique.
@scorpion191420017 ай бұрын
Make one yourself. It's pretty easy to make.
@punchdrunkatheist5 ай бұрын
It's just two straps attached to a pouch. Surely you can figure that out. If you can't learn, even, to make some cordage and stuff in the wild to make one of these, can you clean and cook a squirrel?
@margaretjohnson44137 ай бұрын
Khopesh Dual Purpose tool for reaping and fighting enemies often seen with the thresh in the Pharoes statues showing their power over the harvest and enemy
@mikebunner34986 ай бұрын
A very interesting video. Thank you! Humans have worked hard to fight and harm each other since the beginning of time!!! AND we still are!!!!..................
@punchdrunkatheist5 ай бұрын
Please don't get your history from this video. It's wrong in so many places. Badly wrong. it starts out getting names and things wrong and never gets better.
@VickiSparks-t9w4 ай бұрын
Yes, but i wonder how future historians are going to react to finding that in that the most lethal weapon of OUR time was the Tweet. It rigged the election for Trump in 2016 and opened the door for the acceptance of outright criminals in government. Finally culminating in the open purchasing of our Supreme court and the end of both our constitution and the Rule of Law. The loss of SCOTUS was the COUP DE GRAS for Democracy. With Trump we will have the fall of the greatest military in the history of the world, without a single open battle or a shot fired. How's THAT for a historical statistic? All due to mans inability to understand the threat of computer generated, machine gun propaganda the internet would allow. Or its ability to bend weak minds. They STILL haven't even begun to have a weapon to counter it, because even with the fall of democracy in the US they STILL haven't realized its power. Computer programs used as machine guns that NEVER run out of bullets or stop firing, capable of bending minds and turning people against their own country and even their own FAMILIES.. a horrible weapon if their ever was one and I have long wondered if they will ever come up with a defense against it, or having taking our government they will just make sure THEY are the only ones allowed to USE the weapon and our defeated democracy (and all the ones that fall BECAUSE the USA switched sides) will remain Trump/Putin slaves forever. sounds ridiculous but the most horrible accidents in history always involved things NOBODY appreciated the threat from. Its a brand new world and I'm actually pretty happy that I'm 71 not 21 right now. at least i got to live in a time where freemen didn't live in fear 24/7. For 6 years I''ve watched the rule of law and our constitution crumble. I'm ready for it to be OVER. Its going to be sad to be a refugee but better than than a slave and at least i wont be a poor one..
@HeinzGuderian_6 ай бұрын
Good thing they had rubber straps back then to make their slingshots more effective.
@andrewkenner44726 ай бұрын
There are significant naming and description errors in the opening minute of this. Perhaps some more in depth research would have helped.
@punchdrunkatheist5 ай бұрын
The whole thing is a wreck of bad or no research. Kind of sad, because you know a lot of people are going to get their info from this and stop there.
@kalyanmitra44192 ай бұрын
Urumi are practiced in Kalari Pattu Clubs . These are made of very meliable fine Steels since Mythological times.
@paulhomsy27515 ай бұрын
The Pompei gladius was not " 20 inches in length " which is only 50 cm...At 93 cm, it was 36.61 inches in length as shown @ 3.56. (amazing how people still don't get the metric system).
@deiontewalker94687 ай бұрын
Peep the Elden Ring shot @ 26:00 😂
@grindupBaker5 ай бұрын
The Megadeath Ray Gun shown in thumbnail certainly dominated the battlefield in 900 BC
@Valandar25 ай бұрын
1:50 The Arumi was not that risky for its opponants. It was not capable of inflicting as much damage as even a club. Its only advantage was concealment, and savage pain.
@jerryStrawbridge-ne8cd14 күн бұрын
I appreciate this one; I was pretty good with a slain shoot as a kid 😮😮😮and more hand made toys 🎊 😮. ❤
@kieronbevan74892 ай бұрын
Edward the 1st nicked this bow off the Welsh. In early days only the welsh could use them. It's a Welsh longbow.
@heinwein4217 ай бұрын
0:32 that's not a Catapult that's a Trebouchet by 0:42 that's a Catapult. The Trebouchet reach far more and had a heavier payload....
@TheGr8one10226 ай бұрын
A trebuchet is a type of catapult. You're saying the equivalent of "that's not a gun, that's a rifle." Stop being cringe.
@heinwein4216 ай бұрын
@@TheGr8one1022 you have no idea how a Trebouchet works. Nor everything you can throw something is a Catapult or maybe for you the the greek Palintona and the Roman Balliste or Scorpion is also a Catapult and not Torsionpowered heavy Crossbow....so what👍😂👋🙏
@punchdrunkatheist5 ай бұрын
@@heinwein421no, they're correct. The definition of a catapult is an engine that hurls some sort of missile. Trebuchet, scorpion, onnager, etc. are all catapults by definition.
@NeetchianQueen7 ай бұрын
I hope you speak on the chinese multi crossbow... they shot many arrows.
@Wheels23247 ай бұрын
Is the narrator, the Simple History guy?
@JJhumanbeing1st7 ай бұрын
Same voice as 'Top Fives'.
@L33tSkE3t7 ай бұрын
Maybe stop using AI generated images for your thumbnails. They’re misleading
@olgagagarina41667 ай бұрын
It gets annoying not seeing what I the thumbnail in the actual video
@olgagagarina41667 ай бұрын
Yeah it’s annoying not seeing the thumbnail in the actual video
@PartyhatRS7 ай бұрын
Cry about it. Get with the times, old man.
@L33tSkE3t7 ай бұрын
@@PartyhatRS Lol, I'm in my mid 20s... It misleads people about what's in the video. Plus, I think I hear your mom calling you because you p1ssd the bed again kid.
@jamiestewart73277 ай бұрын
That's the idea. Adding comments to the comments section only promotes the video though..🤦🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
@YogeshShrestha8534 ай бұрын
bans ko guleli (bamboo sling) were used in north asia before fire power arrived
@usmclucas7 ай бұрын
I just love this channel!
@andyvan56926 ай бұрын
at 19:54, it wasn't MIT, But the MythBusters, as can be seen (the guy on the left with the White shirt is Jamie from the MythBusters!!).
@paulbradshaw45116 ай бұрын
Greekfire. Its composition is still unknown today.
@tagomago21784 ай бұрын
The "Urumi" looks like an accident waiting to happen - they should have converted them into tape rules instead. They were probably only slightly safer than a "duel with hand grenades"
@questions67467 ай бұрын
RUBBER POWERED SLINGSHOTS WERE NOT AN ANCIENT WEAPON. THIS GUY IS A FAKE.
@Sonderin4 ай бұрын
26:15 This is actually a bearing sword - it's ceremonial. Would definitely be devastating if a human were able to wield it. lol
@stuartmcdougall67835 ай бұрын
Both sling and slingshot are potentially lethal weapons, based on similar physics. Neither is a toy. I've used both to kill rabbits.
@richardclayton58775 ай бұрын
I'm not sure why they continue to show slingshots. These may have been used for hunting small animals, but they wouldn't be particularly useful against armoured troops. The sling on the other hand was known to be deadly with everything from stones to lead bullets being hurled at the enemy.
@Aninda198021 күн бұрын
There is no sling shown in the section on sling. What is shown is a catapult.
@robertmorgan91126 ай бұрын
It’s great except for the weakness in selecting a target.But it’s”sho’ good‘ nuff”
@richardclayton58775 ай бұрын
I can't see the arumi as being practical in battle. First of all it would take years to master. Second, it would probably prove dangerous to use around allies. You'd be just as likely to injure soldiers on your own side as those on the enemy side. This would force users to operate fairly far apart from one another leaving them at a disadvantage in the close combat typical of warfare up until the modern era.
@phann8606 ай бұрын
Surely the sling you showed was a catapult, I thought a sling was a length of leather with a stone in a pouch swung around the head and the launched. The odachi was more a vanity piece rather than a weapon. The shield has always been used defensively and offensively, the last items are just silly.
@philipgreenhill5117 ай бұрын
Centurions wore their swords on the left
@DimitriosSiagkrisАй бұрын
...as you can see, most of them are from Greece (...) "polivolo" weapon means that with can give many shots. Poli=many and volo from the word voli=shot. 🤔😎⚔️🇬🇷
@KisekuloALOYZ3 ай бұрын
so lovely
@Wardads16 ай бұрын
You know what beats ancient Indian weapons ? Muskets at 50 paces .Or longbows ,even a Gladius will do it.
@percypower68767 ай бұрын
bro stop using the ai generated ahh thumbnails
@olgagagarina41667 ай бұрын
lol I have noticed that lately too I agree
@PartyhatRS7 ай бұрын
Cry about it. Get with the times, old man.
@percypower68767 ай бұрын
#getthefuckoftheinternet
@billrobert32267 ай бұрын
@PartyhatRS the times are it's against YT ToS to use misleading thumbnails. Read more!
@tucanman97755 ай бұрын
slings and slingshots are two different things a sling shot without rubber wont work
@oneyebat78396 ай бұрын
BC, You lost me at BCE.
@TomHowell-ef8hz3 ай бұрын
Some people question whether or not Christ was born on the year zero. They know it's close, but many researchers think it was around 2 BCE. Yeah, it's rather picky, but I can think of more important things to worry about.
@GATKBC3 ай бұрын
Awe, do you need a safe space, snowflake?
@gregsmith78285 ай бұрын
the 4 gladius together were made the same. some used more than others
@sameer_wani_19802 ай бұрын
Jai Bhavani Jai Shivrai
@RussellBallangarry4 ай бұрын
With the death ray, if you set fire to the clothe or a sail the boat is basically fucked, imagine steering a giant boat with no sail lol
@andrewvoros40376 ай бұрын
Even with a glitch or two, this is still incredibly well written.
@chaosordeal2946 ай бұрын
Nope.
@dominicaccampo28787 ай бұрын
The death ray may have fallen out of favor because cloud cover or rain might make it fully ineffective.
@contrerasfrederic60587 ай бұрын
Plus the Mythbusters proved it was just a fantasy like decades ago. There NEVER was a death ray.
@GoldenArrow2976 ай бұрын
You have missed 5K years ago Trisul
@brianreed58395 ай бұрын
Ok. I admit. The section on Slings was terrible because of the photos of sling shots. The voice over got it right but those pictures have to go.
@LawasSarawak5 ай бұрын
mongol had no special weapon and conquered all of ancient weapons
@hxon_95705 ай бұрын
Hate when people say catapult then show trebuchets 😒😮💨
@michaelduncan21515 ай бұрын
Trebuchet.....a.k.a. "WALL BUSTER".....!!!!!
@luisvalenzuela59415 ай бұрын
Gladius... HISPANIENSIS!!
@KartikPatel-nt4ff5 ай бұрын
😅😅😮😅😮😅😅😅well information good show you 😅😅
@JJhumanbeing1st7 ай бұрын
You Do understand, every time you use the term 'BCE', you're still referencing Christ?... Your lies are Very easily revealing and easily recognized/
@mondoseguendo61137 ай бұрын
Don’t you mean Jebus 😂😂😂😂
@SneakyOldCrab7 ай бұрын
Wait.. it doesn’t mean Before Christ Existed?
@FriedPi-mc5yt7 ай бұрын
@@JLRpartners When did the common era start?
@billrobert32267 ай бұрын
Spreading love doesn't need to involve the dating system we use ❤
@BoazLarson-jj4pg7 ай бұрын
The common era still started with Christ, the modern word just doesn't like "The year of our lord", so they changed it.
@josephcallahan16646 ай бұрын
No boomerang, eh?
@THE_BIG-BAD-WOLF_937 ай бұрын
What about the Hwacha?
@montewalker51676 ай бұрын
Civ V
@OneTruePhreak5 ай бұрын
"Ancient" is a pretty loose term on this channel. Anything less than 1000 years ago, isn't "ancient". #11, #4, and #3 are far from it. Also, a slingshot is NOT a sling.
@moutsatsosa6 ай бұрын
5/14 Greek.Not bad.
@cedarpoplar7 ай бұрын
They did their homework..
@Capturing-Memories7 ай бұрын
Palestinians used slings against occupation soldiers, Though it doesn't achieve any goal but it was a weapon to vent the frustration from their aggression.
@leapdrive7 ай бұрын
Tell me what BCE is again? I looked it up in the Gregorian Calendar and I could only find BC. Are you using a different calendar?
@BoazLarson-jj4pg7 ай бұрын
BCE stands for Before Common Era.
@leapdrive7 ай бұрын
@@BoazLarson-jj4pg , which era or epoch is common in our geologic history and why and how many hundreds of millions of years are there in this common era?
@BoazLarson-jj4pg7 ай бұрын
CD is akin to Anno Domimi, or the birth of christ.
@BoazLarson-jj4pg7 ай бұрын
CE, sorry
@andrewholdaway8136 ай бұрын
@@BoazLarson-jj4pg Don't bother explaining to the clown. They're just another Bible buffoon.
@ministarick6 ай бұрын
A slingshot is not a weapon. A sling harnesses centrifugal force to hurl a projectile at deadly velocity. Please correct your content
@benquinneyiii79416 ай бұрын
Take that
@SolidarityChef2 ай бұрын
@ 6:08 - It's General AFZAL Khan, not ALFAZ Khan. Good grief. This is basic history.
@donbruce82346 ай бұрын
this AI has a few problems, but good.
@MMSZoli6 ай бұрын
Can anyone show ANY evidence about URUMI to be effective? it is "TOLD" able to kill a horse in one blow, butI've never seen ANY video this weapon cut anything into half, not even a pineapple. So, I regularly see it on such lists, but I must say it is a weirdo weapon with urban legend efficiency. Prove it's efficiency!
@abishekjogy22266 ай бұрын
its a weapon that was used in the in the southern parts of India. which is one of the last weapons to be mastered in kalaripayattu. this particular martial art was battle proven during that times the martial art still exists but the teachings have be lost in time because of the foreign invasions. but unfortunately i don't think there is anyone who can wield it to the maximum efficiency so it will be hard to find a video now but maybe there is someone out there
@MMSZoli6 ай бұрын
@@abishekjogy2226 I saw som masters practicing with that weapon. Unfortunately even the leaves left unharmed. I am really curious. I know I can cur my finger with even a paper, and especilly with a sharp metal, but the chaotically moving long thin blade seems to be uncontrollable at that level to make any harm. I mean,, it CAN do such cut, but it looks to be more of a luck than mastery, it is so sensitive to the angle it reaches the surface
@alexwhoneedsalastname68765 ай бұрын
how fast are these atlatl for people with real measuring units?
@punchdrunkatheist5 ай бұрын
Fifteen dingleberries a 3rd of a second.
@KristianSinfield-me3gp7 ай бұрын
@ Top Fives Sorry to say that I've just watched a video where they have basically ripped your video off, they've changed it abit and obviously used a bit for the speech, but yeah disgusting how they've just used your vid|I as if it's there own. Once again I'm sorry that these idiots feel they can get away with it. Great content and I love also that it's actually your voice been used and not some computer generated voice, just makes it so much better. Thankyou, peaceout...
@eriklentz63246 ай бұрын
Ehh... this one was made almost a year before this one, and it sure seems like the inspiration for this one. Dang. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXjcc6mKgduJe7c
@mmatchinsky6 ай бұрын
WTF is up with showing modern slingshots (which require elastic) instead of true slings, which don't? Afraid someone will make one? I've seen someone who was good with a sling. Dunno how accurate he was (this was close to 60 years ago) but I wouldn't wanna get hit. Don't try this at home.
@Master_Robert4 ай бұрын
Is this narrated by Charlie Sheen?
@AND-od5jt6 ай бұрын
7:17 I've severe doubts, that anyone in Continental Europe would use the strange Empirial measurement... feet? inches? eff off!
@AND-od5jt6 ай бұрын
8:30 Sorry-- can't let that stand either... Shortbows have a far better rate of fire. It's the equivalent of a carabine (for some Robin Hoods maybe even a sniper).
@AND-od5jt6 ай бұрын
8:56 Why are most of those Roman Pila (Pl of Pilum)? -.-
@punchdrunkatheist5 ай бұрын
This whole video is full of shit. It starts out wrong and continues to be wrong.
@plaincoils6 ай бұрын
so irritating to listen to descriptions of a sling over images of slingshots. so many people apparently under the impression that the bible includes a story about a giant being killed by dennis the menace
@richardhawkins46215 ай бұрын
Death ray my arse
@Keenasalways5 ай бұрын
Seriously, 30 seconds in and the narrator is talking about improvements over catapults whilst showing a Trebuchet. Garbage clickbait.
@arminhanik72296 ай бұрын
You were doing so well.... and then you confuse sling and slingshot. FFS, man.
@mmagnusol6 ай бұрын
Bad on Polybolus and slingshots which are modern and different from slings. Great on Atl-atl illustrations. You need better researchers.
@jerryStrawbridge-ne8cd14 күн бұрын
Again check your history Pe’s….1❤😢
@SalmanSarshad-sm5nu2 ай бұрын
🌻
@simonphoenix37897 ай бұрын
even an AI could come up with more accurate information than the stuff here... also, talks about catapaults, shows trebuchets and some fake prop mangonel looking device....
@ramonsalvaleon26166 ай бұрын
Where or what happen of the korean huacha, why never been shown in ancient weapon that is inspiration of rocket launchers today, what gives.
@JohnSmith-dl1ut5 ай бұрын
Was going to say the same thing but read down and saw you said it 2 days ago.
@JoaoSoares-rs6ec6 ай бұрын
gladius is short sword and it was 60cmm to 70cm, 90cm is a long sword our a spata. only the macedonians used the sarissa. you have a greek falcata identified as a kopesh, they are not the same not even similar. that thing is a trebuchet. that is not a greek catapult, a greek catapult was a balista, that design is an hollywood interpretation of a roman second centurty design called an onager, that is specificaly a medival based as romans didn't use a boal but a sling. the polibolos was heron of alexandria, the balista was dionisios. do better research next time, this was embaracing.
@MrNodebate6 ай бұрын
I highly doubt the effectiveness of some of these weapons, especially the Urumi, the Bagh Nakh and, above all, the Archimedes Death Ray😅 (Mythbusters pretty muched proved that the Death Ray doesn't work - not even close🤣)
@andrew32036 ай бұрын
Mythbusters proved that a bunch of people holding mirrors are not very effective at burning ships. The device Archimdes invented looked more like a parabolic antena with a lens instead of a TV receiver.
@JohnSmith-dl1ut5 ай бұрын
And it did say MIT created a device that did what was described. They used 127 mirrors arranged in a parabola. They did it in 2005. And who believes everything on mythbusters as gospel?
@bekirbekirbekirbekir6 ай бұрын
British longbow just cheap nothing more
@arturovaldes5465 ай бұрын
It's BC . Don't be ashamed of Jesus.
@ybor206 ай бұрын
Isn't it time to finally join the international world where the metric system is simply used? A launch has gone wrong before because they did not take into account the fact that some people continue to stick to local customs and sizes. Like this video, which is clearly meant to be serious, but then all that research and prep work is ruined because they hired some elderly carpenter to tell them how big those things were. Of course it is unclear which measuring system the good man uses because one person's feet are not the same as those of another. It may well be that you grew up with those old, run-down friends, I grew up when they were still inventing the computer and mobile phones did not yet exist. But wouldn't it be absurd to still communicate with the fanfare? But that's really what you're doing...apparently afraid of what wasn't even the future a hundred years ago. Grow up and learn what the metric system means... a new world will open up for you.
@jimcunningham53767 ай бұрын
The sling shot cramp is absolutely ludicrous . I will probably never watch anything you post due to the ridiculous nature of the video
@johndeans14696 ай бұрын
Is that like swimmers cramp? I didn't watch the video
@jimcunningham53766 ай бұрын
@@johndeans1469 without the "m".
@ΧΑΡΑΛΑΜΠΟΣΛΑΜΠΡΟΥ-γ7φ6 ай бұрын
greeks 🙃
@steventurner84286 ай бұрын
Go ask the Australian aborigines and they will tell you that they invented this. The same with the boomerang. They are very very good at lying about these.
@aripiispanen93496 ай бұрын
♪♫♥Very Interesting !
@RyanCampbell-ov6rr6 ай бұрын
I
@punchdrunkatheist5 ай бұрын
What is this crap? He talks about a sling, but keeps showing a slingshot (wrist rocket). Even while he's describing a sling properly, the stock image and video is all slingshots. Not at all the same thing. Also rhe wooden magazine wasn't changed out of the xbow, thhey werebjust continuously loaded from the top. It's hilariously stupid. He says Balearic slingers whole the video shows an 8 year old girl playing wirh a toy slingshot. I mean with such careless research, I'm not sure we should take anything said here seriously.
@ozymandiasultor94806 ай бұрын
Archimedes death ray never existed, that is a myth.
@andrewholdaway8136 ай бұрын
Worst ever thumbnail - not gonna bother watching the nonsense