15 Incredibly Effective Ancient Weapons 

Slingshots are in no way comparable to a sling.

i cant belive he thinks they were refering to a rubber sling shot .

0:26 That's not how they were used... the wooden magazines were not swapped out, but constantly reloaded by feeding from the top -- so it could fire literally until you ran out of bolts.

Big difference between a sling and a child's sling shot

Slingshots are toys, slings are weapons. The sling is just two strips of leather connected to a leather pouch containing a stone. The slinger held the ends of both strips and whirled the stone over his head, then released one of the strips at exactly the right time to hurl the stone at the target. Expert slingers could hit birds in flight, and the stone hit with the force of a 45-caliber bullet.

It eases my mind that the content creator isn't getting paid to produce this gradesschool level analysis.

The thumbnails in this channel are hilarious. 😂😂

A slingshot is not the same as a sling.

On the Gladius, the Legionairs would carry them on the right side, and the Centurions would carry them on the left side. In close formation it was advantageous to have the sword right so it could not entangle in the shield, or hit the man to the left with the scabbard while you tried a cross body draw. This was also handy if you the enemy pressed against your shield, leaving you no room to draw it easily. As its a short sword, drawing it from the right is no problem.

There are significant naming and description errors in the opening minute of this. Perhaps some more in depth research would have helped.

Good thing they had rubber straps back then to make their slingshots more effective.

The Pompei gladius was not " 20 inches in length " which is only 50 cm...At 93 cm, it was 36.61 inches in length as shown @ 3.56. (amazing how people still don't get the metric system).

A very interesting video. Thank you! Humans have worked hard to fight and harm each other since the beginning of time!!! AND we still are!!!!..................

The Megadeath Ray Gun shown in thumbnail certainly dominated the battlefield in 900 BC

I would hate to face anyone wielding any of these weapons! Most of them are downright frightening! 😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤

Khopesh Dual Purpose tool for reaping and fighting enemies often seen with the thresh in the Pharoes statues showing their power over the harvest and enemy

1:50 The Arumi was not that risky for its opponants. It was not capable of inflicting as much damage as even a club. Its only advantage was concealment, and savage pain.

I just love this channel!

I bought a leather sling at a sci-fi convention like the one at 17:05 and got pretty darned good with it! I could hit the target (tree trunk) from a good distance away even. Thought I could carry something like it if I ever got caught out in the wild, for nailing squirrels and rabbits. Lost it some time later, sadly enough, but I'd love to find one again and re-learn my technique.

Peep the Elden Ring shot @ 26:00 😂

Is the narrator, the Simple History guy?

at 19:54, it wasn't MIT, But the MythBusters, as can be seen (the guy on the left with the White shirt is Jamie from the MythBusters!!).

BC, You lost me at BCE.

I hope you speak on the chinese multi crossbow... they shot many arrows.

slings and slingshots are two different things a sling shot without rubber wont work

RUBBER POWERED SLINGSHOTS WERE NOT AN ANCIENT WEAPON. THIS GUY IS A FAKE.

I'm not sure why they continue to show slingshots. These may have been used for hunting small animals, but they wouldn't be particularly useful against armoured troops. The sling on the other hand was known to be deadly with everything from stones to lead bullets being hurled at the enemy.

😅😅😮😅😮😅😅😅well information good show you 😅😅

It’s great except for the weakness in selecting a target.But it’s”sho’ good‘ nuff”

0:32 that's not a Catapult that's a Trebouchet by 0:42 that's a Catapult. The Trebouchet reach far more and had a heavier payload....

Greekfire. Its composition is still unknown today.

Gladius... HISPANIENSIS!!

Trebuchet.....a.k.a. "WALL BUSTER".....!!!!!

Take that

Both sling and slingshot are potentially lethal weapons, based on similar physics. Neither is a toy. I've used both to kill rabbits.

Centurions wore their swords on the left

I can't see the arumi as being practical in battle. First of all it would take years to master. Second, it would probably prove dangerous to use around allies. You'd be just as likely to injure soldiers on your own side as those on the enemy side. This would force users to operate fairly far apart from one another leaving them at a disadvantage in the close combat typical of warfare up until the modern era.

Surely the sling you showed was a catapult, I thought a sling was a length of leather with a stone in a pouch swung around the head and the launched. The odachi was more a vanity piece rather than a weapon. The shield has always been used defensively and offensively, the last items are just silly.

Hate when people say catapult then show trebuchets 😒😮‍💨

the 4 gladius together were made the same. some used more than others

mongol had no special weapon and conquered all of ancient weapons

You know what beats ancient Indian weapons ? Muskets at 50 paces .Or longbows ,even a Gladius will do it.

You have missed 5K years ago Trisul

What about the Hwacha?

From those that came down from space and manipulated us as Human we have been killing each other ever since in the beginning there was no such thing

Ok. I admit. The section on Slings was terrible because of the photos of sling shots. The voice over got it right but those pictures have to go.

how fast are these atlatl for people with real measuring units?

No boomerang, eh?

8:56 Why are most of those Roman Pila (Pl of Pilum)? -.-

Even with a glitch or two, this is still incredibly well written.

They did their homework..

Tell me what BCE is again? I looked it up in the Gregorian Calendar and I could only find BC. Are you using a different calendar?

5/14 Greek.Not bad.

♪♫♥Very Interesting !

this AI has a few problems, but good.

The death ray may have fallen out of favor because cloud cover or rain might make it fully ineffective.

A slingshot is not a weapon. A sling harnesses centrifugal force to hurl a projectile at deadly velocity. Please correct your content

Maybe stop using AI generated images for your thumbnails. They’re misleading

"Ancient" is a pretty loose term on this channel. Anything less than 1000 years ago, isn't "ancient". #11, #4, and #3 are far from it. Also, a slingshot is NOT a sling.

bro stop using the ai generated ahh thumbnails

@ Top Fives Sorry to say that I've just watched a video where they have basically ripped your video off, they've changed it abit and obviously used a bit for the speech, but yeah disgusting how they've just used your vid|I as if it's there own. Once again I'm sorry that these idiots feel they can get away with it. Great content and I love also that it's actually your voice been used and not some computer generated voice, just makes it so much better. Thankyou, peaceout...

Death ray my arse

7:17 I've severe doubts, that anyone in Continental Europe would use the strange Empirial measurement... feet? inches? eff off!

WTF is up with showing modern slingshots (which require elastic) instead of true slings, which don't? Afraid someone will make one? I've seen someone who was good with a sling. Dunno how accurate he was (this was close to 60 years ago) but I wouldn't wanna get hit. Don't try this at home.

Palestinians used slings against occupation soldiers, Though it doesn't achieve any goal but it was a weapon to vent the frustration from their aggression.

You Do understand, every time you use the term 'BCE', you're still referencing Christ?... Your lies are Very easily revealing and easily recognized/

Bad on Polybolus and slingshots which are modern and different from slings. Great on Atl-atl illustrations. You need better researchers.

Can anyone show ANY evidence about URUMI to be effective? it is "TOLD" able to kill a horse in one blow, butI've never seen ANY video this weapon cut anything into half, not even a pineapple. So, I regularly see it on such lists, but I must say it is a weirdo weapon with urban legend efficiency. Prove it's efficiency!

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You were doing so well.... and then you confuse sling and slingshot. FFS, man.

Seriously, 30 seconds in and the narrator is talking about improvements over catapults whilst showing a Trebuchet. Garbage clickbait.

so irritating to listen to descriptions of a sling over images of slingshots. so many people apparently under the impression that the bible includes a story about a giant being killed by dennis the menace

British longbow just cheap nothing more

I highly doubt the effectiveness of some of these weapons, especially the Urumi, the Bagh Nakh and, above all, the Archimedes Death Ray😅 (Mythbusters pretty muched proved that the Death Ray doesn't work - not even close🤣)

The sling shot cramp is absolutely ludicrous . I will probably never watch anything you post due to the ridiculous nature of the video

Where or what happen of the korean huacha, why never been shown in ancient weapon that is inspiration of rocket launchers today, what gives.

Archimedes death ray never existed, that is a myth.

greeks 🙃

even an AI could come up with more accurate information than the stuff here... also, talks about catapaults, shows trebuchets and some fake prop mangonel looking device....

Isn't it time to finally join the international world where the metric system is simply used? A launch has gone wrong before because they did not take into account the fact that some people continue to stick to local customs and sizes. Like this video, which is clearly meant to be serious, but then all that research and prep work is ruined because they hired some elderly carpenter to tell them how big those things were. Of course it is unclear which measuring system the good man uses because one person's feet are not the same as those of another. It may well be that you grew up with those old, run-down friends, I grew up when they were still inventing the computer and mobile phones did not yet exist. But wouldn't it be absurd to still communicate with the fanfare? But that's really what you're doing...apparently afraid of what wasn't even the future a hundred years ago. Grow up and learn what the metric system means... a new world will open up for you.

Worst ever thumbnail - not gonna bother watching the nonsense

Neverthless -- some quite interesting new informations (t/u earned)

What is this crap? He talks about a sling, but keeps showing a slingshot (wrist rocket). Even while he's describing a sling properly, the stock image and video is all slingshots. Not at all the same thing. Also rhe wooden magazine wasn't changed out of the xbow, thhey werebjust continuously loaded from the top. It's hilariously stupid. He says Balearic slingers whole the video shows an 8 year old girl playing wirh a toy slingshot. I mean with such careless research, I'm not sure we should take anything said here seriously.

gladius is short sword and it was 60cmm to 70cm, 90cm is a long sword our a spata. only the macedonians used the sarissa. you have a greek falcata identified as a kopesh, they are not the same not even similar. that thing is a trebuchet. that is not a greek catapult, a greek catapult was a balista, that design is an hollywood interpretation of a roman second centurty design called an onager, that is specificaly a medival based as romans didn't use a boal but a sling. the polibolos was heron of alexandria, the balista was dionisios. do better research next time, this was embaracing.

0:55 Totally the wrong Dionysios depicted -- didn't you find it odd, that a Greek pre-christian engineer wears a robe decorated with crosses? I'm quite sure you got the bishop with the same name there... not a minute in here (please research more carefully!)

There is no explanation according to the thumbnail image. I do not like this video, its a clickbait, its manipulating, deceiving. I give this video thumb down.

Go ask the Australian aborigines and they will tell you that they invented this. The same with the boomerang. They are very very good at lying about these.

It's BC . Don't be ashamed of Jesus.

Downvote due to using BCE. No need to be so woke.