PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoPLATE HISTORYlemmy.worldimagemessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up149arrow-down1imagePLATE HISTORYlemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square6fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareCondiment2085@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoCan someone pls explain what’s going on here
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agoPlate armor is generally accepted to have been created ~1400 AD in Europe. The Romans, however, had a form of armor made of steel plates back ~100 AD, and are thus mocking the later ‘barbarians’ for thinking they invented it. Long before the Romans, the Myceneans in Greece had a period around ~1500 BCE in which they used armor made of overlapping bronze plates
Can someone pls explain what’s going on here
Plate armor is generally accepted to have been created ~1400 AD in Europe.
The Romans, however, had a form of armor made of steel plates back ~100 AD, and are thus mocking the later ‘barbarians’ for thinking they invented it.
Long before the Romans, the Myceneans in Greece had a period around ~1500 BCE in which they used armor made of overlapping bronze plates
Thank you! So interesting