History Facts about Weapons & Warriors (New Weekly Time Periods)

[mlockha]

So basically my reasoning with this is to choose a new time period ever week (1920's, 200 AD's etc.). In that time period I will choose a warrior. Now the job for you all is to give me facts about the warrior, their weapons, etc. Now let us start with a time period.

Time Period: Medieval

Warrior: Janissary

Weapons:

Facts:
- They were turkish slaves who were trained to be sharpshooters.
- They were archers at first but then they adopted the use of firearms.
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[Ad Bot]

[Jacob/Lee]

Facts:
- starfishs in Age of Empires 3
- Very susceptible to flaming forgetin' hoops

[mlockha]

Facts:
- starfishs in Age of Empires 3
- Very susceptible to flaming forgetin' hoops

Oh god I remeber the flaming hoops in AoE 3. I hated them! But while I like to talk about AoE (It was a fun game) I would like to keep this on topic and not about video games.

[Ben Grapevine]

I'd rather not do your HW

[mlockha]

I'd rather not do your HW

It's not HW lol, I just like to learn about history's warriors and weapons.

[Buu]

early africans:

prehistoric

weapons:
spear

flint knife

dung grenade

perks

-stamina +200
-strength +50

[Kill All]

They were turkish slaves who were trained to be sharpshooters or something
They were archers at first but then they adopted the use of firearms

[mlockha]

They were turkish slaves who were trained to be sharpshooters or something
They were archers at first but then they adopted the use of firearms

Thank you for some actual facts! I thought they were greek not turkish, they just were guards in turkey, but slaves from Greece.

[Ben Grapevine]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissary

[mlockha]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissary

Jesus christ stop being a richard. Some people don't just wanna learn about something on wikipedia, they want to have a actual discussion about facts with other people about the weapons.
"hurr dont make us do ur hw"
"hurr here's wikipedia just use that not to hard"

[Fredulus]

It's not HW lol, I just like to learn about history's warriors and weapons.

then read a book, you're not going to get reliable information here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissary

or that