Medieval Military Technology
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In Northern Europe at the end of the eighth century, the Vikings began to attack the lands across the sea from their Scandinavian homelands. These attacks were completely unanticipated by a European populace that did not believe it possible for anyone at the time to make ships capable of raiding their coasts.
Ancient oarsmen/sailors were not slaves or prisoners. This modern concept is drawn from late medieval and early modern history, but it is inaccurate for much of the ancient world. It would be later, in the Roman Empire, that free oarsmen were replaced by slaves and prisoners.
In England there is no written record of any new defensive construction taking place after the fall of the Roman Empire until the reign of Alfred the Great in the ninth century. Roman fortifications, mostly town walls, had been built more than 600 years previously, and these appear to have been poorly maintained.
The father had made a kingdom; the son would make the kingdom an empire. In almost every one of his 42 years of rule, Charlemagne summoned his army for conquest outside of the kingdom’s borders.
After two defeats at the hands of the Roman general Stilicho, Alaric had not even reached the outskirts of the city before 408. However, that year the Roman political leadership turned against Stilicho and he was killed, leaving his armies in disarray and the road to Rome open for Alaric and the Visigoths.
A Visigothic presence in Thrace would provide the Romans with a defensive deterrent in that unpopulated region. What Valens did not realize, however, was how many Visigoths actually wanted to enter into the empire. When an estimated 200,000 Visigoths crossed over the Danube River, Valens found that he could not feed them, and the Visigoths were forced to challenge the Roman army, defeating it at the battle of Adrianople in 378.
Emperor Valerian who, after a year of being used as a step-stool by the Persian king, Shapur I, to climb onto his horse, died in captivity.
Boiling oil, while apparently loved by moviemakers, considering the number of times it is shown in films depicting medieval sieges, was not dumped on those attacking the walls, or at least there are no accounts of this happening in any medieval narratives.
It was a slow process to breach a wall or gate but, judging from the Assyrian successes, these battering rams were effective at doing so. In fact, they were so effective, and as they too appeared in the guise of animals, that some historians wonder if this is not the origin of the Trojan Horse myth.