It was an ingenious heavy artillery weapon from a time before gun powder. They'd often tightly bundle up balls of dry brush, light it, launch it from those things, and it'd make a pretty effective firebomb.
They would also hurl dead and decomposing bodies, often infected with the plague, into the fortifications of besieged fortresses. The first bio-warfare.
i had to look that up. Trebuchet - a type of catapult.
That's a gross oversimplification. That's like saying a Rolls Royce is some type of automobile.
I wondered too. But I'm kinda lazy, so I am glad you looked it up. :)
It was an ingenious heavy artillery weapon from a time before gun powder. They'd often tightly bundle up balls of dry brush, light it, launch it from those things, and it'd make a pretty effective firebomb.
They would also hurl dead and decomposing bodies, often infected with the plague, into the fortifications of besieged fortresses. The first bio-warfare.
They were smart lil' buggers when it came to warfare before all the tech. They knew how to make stuff happen.
We should probably learn how to make those....
Me too. ??
You never built one in Physics class?