[lit-ideas] More places to get catapults
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:31:30 -0500
When the Anglo Saxons assumed control in Eastern
Britain during the fifth century, their siege
weapons were tree trunks and little more came back
at them than stones and darts.
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The argument is that once a culture has an
advanced weapons technology, it may lose
everything else, but will retain that advanced
weaponry. So cultural achievements may ebb or
flow, but weapons will steadily become more
sophisticated.
Your point could be good counter-evidence to
Koestler's thesis if the Anglo-Saxons had the
weapons beforehand. Did the Anglo-Saxons ever
acquire scorpions, ballistas, or trebuchets (from
the Romans in Britain) and then lose the technology?
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