Warfare

 The middle ages saw significant changes in the way warfare was fought. Strategies was a important key of warfare. In warfare they use false retreats to throw off the the enemy to make the them advance forward. They try going after the retreating army and then they ambush them to gain power over the war. Their most depended strategy is cavalry there was two different cavalry. Light cavalry that had less armor and heavy cavalry that had fool body armor suits. Heavy cavalry was very important in Europe because knights were harder to kill in their armored suits. When the Mongolians developed the stirrup it provided easier fighting on horseback. That is when cavalry became important in the medieval warfare. Medieval military had a hard time trying to stop the cavalry charges so they dug pot holes to make the horses and the rider fall in the hole. They also use long sharpened stakes to stop the cavalry from advancing and they used barriers too.

Siege warfare was most depended when the enemy was inside the castle. Siege warfare was when you surround a castle and wait on til their enemy was weak. When the enemy was weak they used siege machines to breach the castle or they dug tunnels to collapse the wall to come into the castle. When gun power was invented it made it easier to get into the castle. Gun power invented artillery. It also crippled the cavalry charges.

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