The History of Tech
Technology today is referred mostly to electronic devices. Although it is true that they are, that’s not the whole definition. Technology is a philosophical definition in which technology is anything that could aid a person for ease of complication or aid to a goal. This term of technology hasn’t been discovered until billions of years after the Earth was created, but it has been used since we first came.
The first piece of technology was the most basic form of a tool. It was a rock. These rocks were found as sharp, but before we learned to sharpen the rocks, we used it as blunt as it is. We used these rocks to get food. We would hunt the nearby prey and run them out. Once we caught them defenseless, we would kill them with our technology.
More and more uses were developed as we learned new skill; hunting, cooking, crafting. The rock was becoming more useful, but its evolution didn’t stop there. We found faults with our useful tool and faults with tools create faults in our lives. So as humans, we looked on how to make it better. We have always had sticks, but we never really used them.
We took the sticks, sharpened them, and used those spears instead. Of course they didn’t satisfy either for they were too frail. Years later, aggression took over. Sometime after weapons became more lethal, someone was killed in cold blood. The crafter became craftier and used the skin from their catch to make clothes that would protect their skin from damage.
Sometime around that period, string was discovered. Rocks were tied to the weak sticks to add weight. Along with that, arrows were created along with a bended stick with tight string. This weapon is commonly known as the bow. As weapons have become more lethal, armor grew bigger. Metal was discovered and weapons were made. Soon those metals were melted and hardened into a weapon.
This was most common in the medieval era. Melted metal became more common and armor was made from them as well. These weapons include swords, two handed swords, daggers, metal-tipped spears, axes, metal bows, crossbows and bolts, mace and the lance. Of course, this era is commonly known of the knight and his armor. There were several parts to the knight’s armor.
These parts include visor, bascinet, breast plate/back plate, rerebrace, besagues, vambrace, gauntlets, faulds, cuisses, polegns, greaves, sabatons, spurs and the shield. The visor was the helm. It protected the face from deadly blows but had a downfall of vision. The bascinet was the metal under the helm keeping extra harm from blows from under the helm.
The breast/back plate was the protection for the chest and back. It was the biggest and heaviest piece of armor out of them all. It was the most important due to the size of the target. The armor usually came with besagues which are little discs at the joint of the shoulder. They didn’t do much but serve as décor and little extra protection. The rerebrace was the armor protecting the top of the shoulder until the elbow. The vambrace was the lower section of the arm.
The gauntlets were the gloves that were mainly chain due to the amount of joints. The faulds was chain that draped down from the chest (inside armor) to the middle of the thigh all around. The cuisses were protection for the top of the thighs. The polegns were made for the lower thigh to the knees. The greaves went from the knee to the ankle. The sabatons were the shoe made of metal. Along with them came the spurs which were little gear type discs that spun on the heel.
Now of course, that wasn’t enough. These knights would also have an under layer of chain everywhere except on the head. All of that armor was heavy, so more armor was created that had less
found faults with our useful tool and faults with tools create faults in our lives. So as humans, we looked on how to make it better. We have always had sticks, but we never really used them.
We took the sticks, sharpened them, and used those spears instead. Of course they didn’t satisfy either for they were too frail. Years later, aggression took over. Sometime after weapons became more lethal, someone was killed in cold blood. The crafter became craftier and used the skin from their catch to make clothes that would protect their skin from damage.
Sometime around that period, string was discovered. Rocks were tied to the weak sticks to add weight. Along with that, arrows were created along with a bended stick with tight string. This weapon is commonly known as the bow. As weapons have become more lethal, armor grew bigger. Metal was discovered and weapons were made. Soon those metals were melted and hardened into a weapon.
This was most common in the medieval era. Melted metal became more common and armor was made from them as well. These weapons include swords, two handed swords, daggers, metal-tipped spears, axes, metal bows, crossbows and bolts, mace and the lance. Of course, this era is commonly known of the knight and his armor. There were several parts to the knight’s armor.
These parts include visor, bascinet, breast plate/back plate, rerebrace, besagues, vambrace, gauntlets, faulds, cuisses, polegns, greaves, sabatons, spurs and the shield. The visor was the helm. It protected the face from deadly blows but had a downfall of vision. The bascinet was the metal under the helm keeping extra harm from blows from under the helm.
The breast/back plate was the protection for the chest and back. It was the biggest and heaviest piece of armor out of them all. It was the most important due to the size of the target. The armor usually came with besagues which are little discs at the joint of the shoulder. They didn’t do much but serve as décor and little extra protection. The rerebrace was the armor protecting the top of the shoulder until the elbow. The vambrace was the lower section of the arm.
The gauntlets were the gloves that were mainly chain due to the amount of joints. The faulds was chain that draped down from the chest (inside armor) to the middle of the thigh all around. The cuisses were protection for the top of the thighs. The polegns were made for the lower thigh to the knees. The greaves went from the knee to the ankle. The sabatons were the shoe made of metal. Along with them came the spurs which were little gear type discs that spun on the heel.
Now of course, that wasn’t enough. These knights would also have an under layer of chain everywhere except on the head. All of that armor was heavy, so more armor was created that had less