Weapon Types
Reasons for Development
Innovators and Innovations
Gee Whiz
100

The earliest weapon humans are recorded using

What are spears?

100

The reason primitive weapons were invented

What is Hunting?

100

This region of the world was the first recorded to tame horses

What is Kazakhstan? 

100

Something used to inflict bodily harm

What is a weapon?

200

These curved throwing sticks were used well before the Aussie's got their hands on them

What are Boomerangs?

200

A more efficient way to hunt without alerting your prey

What is the Bow & Arrow?

200

This Chinese dynasty is credited for discovering gunpowder

What is the Song Dynasty?

200

"I am become death, destroyer of worlds"

Who is Dr. Robert J. Oppenheimer?

300

The name of the first ever submarine, it shares this with a particular green hard shelled reptile

What is the Turtle?

300

The added benefit from developing weapons for hunting

What is protection?

300

This American developed the fastest reloading pistol of his time

Who is Samuel Colt?

300

The continent was the first to use the Atlatl

What is Africa?

400

This Greek weapon took the crossbow and added steroids

What is the Ballista

400

A weapon made from more durable metal that we often used in mythology for centuries

What is the sword?

400

This Chinese Dynasty drove firearm advancement through the matchlock, musket, and naval mines

What is the Ming Dynasty?

400

The name of the first ironclad battleship

What is the USS Monitor?

500

Dubbed the "Stone age Kalashnikov"

What is the Atlatl

500

The precursor for high energy shells for wartime use, named for their inventor

What are Shrapnel bombs?

500

This man applied for the first patent of a silencer

Hiram Maxim Jr.

500

The first machine gun that the Belgian army introduced

What is the mitrailleuse?

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