INTA 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Expanding Bullet, Biological Warfare, Roman Triumph
7 Jan 2017
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The evolution of weapons and war equipment was not governed solely by rationality; considering their technical utility, capabilities, and effectiveness. Rather the design and employment of weapons were intertwined with a host of anthropological, psychological, and cultural factors. These factors pushed development into strange, illogical path. Among the numerous non-utilitarian factors of designing weapons, the most important one is aesthetic (the drive to decorate, to create forms that are not only useful but pleasing to eye. Not only they were not effective but sometimes interfere with the function of weapon). The egyptian pharaohs, jewish rabbis, and roman soldiers and knights. During the self-proclaimed age of awakening and reason, the early modern period, from mid-fifteen to late 17th cent, the taste for decorating weapons increases. Fortification was often built with aesthetic in mind. This was not only in europe, but in japan. Another factor was size; sometimes bigger size helped with effectiveness.
