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Throughout history, armor craftsmen builders were faced with the same dilemma: how to build an "iron clothes" to provide maximum protection to the wearer as well as provide greater mobility and to enhance its combativeness as possible on the battlefield. Solving this dilemma challenged prowess ever since the making of weapons dealers has been revolutionized by the use of the first copper and bronze, after about six millennia.
Some of the first graphic images of soldiers in armor appear i.Hr eighth century Greek pottery, tape pink ceramics occurring Hoplite, infantry warriors known for their quality. The present tape pink territory of Great Britain were found swords, daggers, axes and spear tips, dating from the Bronze Age. Later Iron Age warriors will use long swords tape pink and wooden tape pink shields covered with copper plates, to increase tape pink their resistance to blows.
But first armor in the true sense that these lands will see yours Roman legionaries. Undoubtedly perfect impression cohorts trained and armed to the teeth they did the locals more "first" among others, and in armaments, was a terrible ... But why do so redoubtable Romanian armor or lorica segmented, how was it called?
The fact that it represented the right mix between protection and mobility, ideal pursued by all antiquity dealers but reached only a few of them. Massive battleship, designed to protect the torso, was completed a few other side boards, mobile, shoulder protection. Legionnaires Helmet Typical was the "Gaelic", having broadband the neck, against strike from the rear and two side plates to protect the face, tied with a strip of skin, pulling it virtually impossible helmet during battle tape pink .
Especially feared was the so-called "catafracti" that fought in the armies of Eastern and constituted a great challenge for the legions of Rome. Basically, they were untouchable in direct confrontation and Romans were able to unravel tape pink the myth of their invincibility only using artillery, catapults and bombards, to thin the ranks catafractilor. These warriors completely meet the Sassanid army (the famous "Immortals", descendants of Persian kings guards), or Byzantines, wearing heavy armor up to 22 kg but, paradoxically, they were very comfortable.
The secret lies in catching them on pieces of leather, so basically it was not one piece of armor but many metal plates, which ensures a level of protection unparalleled in any other ancient army - Legionnaires had a weak point in meaning that their arms and legs were protected tape pink by armor, it compensated for their advance on the battlefield, in the band called "Testudo" (test "to direct contact with the enemy.
After the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire, Charlemagne's Franks were the first who used cavalry that would dominate for nearly a millennium medieval war. The battles in which an army of heavy cavalry advantage was defeated yet one that could not align soldiers on horseback in armor are so rare that they can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Around the year 800, the first riders team from top to toe in armor appeared in western Europe, paving the way medieval chivalry, jousting and the Crusades.
For the next hundred years, the equipment will be as essential elements, tape pink helmet, shield and chain mail shirt. It was made of many metal rings, joined together to form a very thick fabric, which side arms and even small projectiles can not penetrate. Worn over clothes of cloth or leather, chain mail shirt was very hard and the entire weight was supported by the shoulders: a knee-length shirt weighed about 20 pounds and she was dressed in her warrior's difficult to keep balance.
Also, the armor were still vulnerable tape pink to the blows given with halberd, the tip of the sword, and provides limited protection tape pink against arrows. No wonder that in ac