Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to AskHistorians@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agoHow effective were spears back in the day? Kind of seems flimsy with just a metal tip and a long body. Why not just target the the wooden part and it's done. How did they last so long?message-squaremessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down18
arrow-up1-4arrow-down1message-squareHow effective were spears back in the day? Kind of seems flimsy with just a metal tip and a long body. Why not just target the the wooden part and it's done. How did they last so long?Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to AskHistorians@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agomessage-square19linkfedilink
minus-squareGuy Ingonito@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoPeople don’t like stabbing one another so the farther away from the person you’re stabbing you can get, the better. The roman one’s were designed to break after you threw them so the enemies couldn’t throw them back
People don’t like stabbing one another so the farther away from the person you’re stabbing you can get, the better.
The roman one’s were designed to break after you threw them so the enemies couldn’t throw them back