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...allowing a limited amount of [[metalworking]] in early cultures. Egyptian weapons made from meteoric iron in about 3000 B.C. were highly prized as "Daggers f ...ncient and medieval [[China]], ancient and medieval [[India]], ancient and medieval [[Japan]], etc. Of interest to note is that many applications, practices, a

...China and founded the Yuan Dynasty, they used the Chinese gunpowder-based weapons technology in their invasion of Japan. Chinese also used gunpowder to fuel ...over, it is difficult to accurately translate original sources, especially medieval Chinese texts which employ metaphor to describe unexplained phenomena, into

...the [[Yayoi period]] from about 300&nbsp;BC to 300&nbsp;AD, iron tools and weapons such as knives, axes, swords or spears, were introduced to Japan from Korea ..., and around the mid-Kofun period swords evolved from thrusting to cutting weapons.<ref name="nagayama-p12"/><ref name="nagayama-p12"/> Ancient swords were al

...ghly regarded due to its origin in the heavens and was often used to forge weapons and tools or whole specimens placed in churches.{{sfn|Weeks|1968|p=31}} It ...}}</ref><!--Missing page numbers (how would you add them?)--> During the [[medieval]] period, means were found in Europe of producing wrought iron from cast ir

...Wildfires were used in battles throughout human history as [[early thermal weapons]]. From the [[Middle ages]], accounts were written of [[occupational burnin ...] was linked to the period between AD 1050 and 1200, coinciding with the [[Medieval Warm Period]].<ref>{{vancite journal |url=http://www.co2science.org/data/mw

...e believed to be sites where [[Neanderthal]]s may have mined [[flint]] for weapons and tools. {{Citation needed|date=March 2010}} ===Medieval Europe===

...some who, based on their extreme religious beliefs or ideologies, take up weapons and become involved in warfare, or who commit acts of violence or terrorism *[[man-at-arms]] - medieval term for a soldier, almost always a professional.

...Abul-A'ala Mawdudi, Islamic Foundation, Leicester, England.</ref><ref>The medieval jurist ash-[[Shafi'i]], founder of one of the main schools of ''[[fiqh]]'', <ref>''The Encyclopedia of world history: ancient, medieval, and modern,'' ... p. 589, Peter N. Stearns, William Leonard Langer - 2001

Although medieval [[Feudalism|feudal]] lords were not usually engaged in what moderns would c ...llegal trading of nuclear materials, military equipment smuggling, nuclear weapons smuggling, [[passport fraud]], providing illegal immigration and cheap labo

[[File:Caltrop closeup.JPG|thumb|right|Late Medieval European caltrop]] [[Category:Roman weapons]]