Rome fell in 456 A.D., and bronze armour was rarely used for many centuries, instead leather and mail armour predominated.Ĭharlemagne (king of the Frankish Empire, 768-814 A.D.) introduced the first tenants of feudalism by requiring military service to the king through ownership of land and a byrnie (bûr.n_). Bronze or iron helmets were still used, as were mail and scale armour, and the scuta, a shield of laminated wood covered with linen and/or hides with a metal boss for holding the scuta. they had developed the lorica segmentata, a body armour of iron bands fastened together with leather straps.

Roman military technology changed throughout the years of the Empire, and by the first c. A mail shirt weighed between 14 to 30 pounds. (Celts were ancient people of western and central Europe including Britons and Gauls.) Mail, or chainmail, was made by winding wire tightly around an iron rod, cutting the wire into rings, and interlocking the rings together by soldering or riveting each individual ring closed. It is believed mail was a Celtic invention. B.C., Romans developed a cuirass of linen covered with bronze lames and a shirt of interlocking metal rings called mail. The Romans borrowed heavily from the Greeks using their version of the argive (scutum), greaves, helmets and cuirass.īy the 3rd c. Rome was founded in 753 B.C., but 500 years of warfare were needed for Rome to gain dominance of the Italian peninsula.

The Greeks used a massive shield called an argive which covered the body from chin to knee. Their armour was the bronze breastplate and backplate, termed the cuirass, greaves, which protected the shins, and brass helmets. B.C., Greek technology refined armour by fashioning bronze plates to fit over distinct parts of the body, i.e., following the musculature of the body part it was protecting. The Assyrians also used bronze helmets, shields and arms. This style of armour was used into the 16th c. The Assyrians (900-600 B.C.) developed lamellar armour small rectangular plates or lames were sewn to a garment in parallel rows. The armour was very heavy, causing this style of protection to be short-lived. The first known use of armour was by the Egyptians (1500 B.C.) The armour was a cloth, shirtlike garment overlapped with bronze scales or plates sewn to it.

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