On the net, and on the bookshelves, you can now find any version of the story, which is called "for yourself." If you like Ancient History - take books about the "great" Atlantis and Hyperboreans. Tired of the Middle Ages? Cross it out together with the New Chronology. At the same time, we shorten the general history and increase human self-esteem - we remove the dark time, where people did not show any mental abilities, but simply ate, drank and prayed. Between one hundred and three hundred and more summer battles.
If you have an inferiority complex and you are jealous of the Western countries, then for you there are whole series about the powerful Tartary and the great Slavic states for every taste. Well, to continue lying on the couch and in the absence of their achievements, to grasp the prehistoric fantasy.
Technocrats, of course, study UFOs and are in awe of aliens from the past. Paleokontakt. Accelerated production from ape man. Ancient Sumerians. The Anunnaki and Nibiru along with Zachary Sitchenko.
This is all good and useful, but is it worth getting into such a jungle if there are artifacts right under your nose, for which you do not need to bury yourself in ancient sands, but you can simply appreciate modern photographs. For example the First World War.
Who said that this is not modernity? In comparison with the Sumerians and Annunaki, it was generally an hour ago. Let's see under our nose?
Body armor, Armors and Machine guns.
What an ancient photograph of knightly armor! Surprisingly well preserved over the centuries. Just for those in which this photograph was invented.
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In the picture, the soldiers of the First World War. Most likely a Heavy or a member of the maintenance team. Escapes from the fragments.
World War 1 Body Armor: 1914-1918 circa 1914: A soldier wear body armor made of linked steel plates covering his chest.
Ops! Why did he put on the ancient plate armor of the brigantine? Reenactor, or what? No, just a soldier in the First World War. He had no time for reconstruction, he wanted to live, so he equipped himself.
But medieval armor did not appear on the fields immediately. They still had to be made. therefore, at the beginning of the First World War (I will often repeat this name, so that you do not forget that we are in the 20th century, and not on the defense of Athens or Rome in antiquity), the body was protected … with skins!
28 February 1915 - Storm Troopers Canadian troops show off leather pickelhaube helmets and furs they have captured in a trench raid. Via the Canadian War Museum.
You are now looking at the illustrious Woolen Canadian troops. Haven't you heard of these? We remember the gopher … because it exists !!!
Stoßtruppler versuchsweise mit Infanteriepanzer ausgerüstet (1915).
These are not descendants of elves, Tolkien's followers play in middle-earth in their mother's yard. These are German stormtroopers with homemade shields. The knight's costume and antique armor have not yet entered the army. Not invented, sir!
Here are my close combat things. All Austrohungarian dug found. 3 boxer, 2 trench clubs, an hungarian fokos and an shield for dragoner helmet.
What kind of advanced weapons do people dig up on the battlefield. Only the serial number on the brass knuckles makes it difficult to tell about an ancient Roman soldier from a phalanx or a forest barbarian with a set of kitchen knives, as in the first picture. And this, judging by the signature, is from the kit of a soldier of Austria-Hungary.
By the way, do you see the hat? Well, that is, a helmet. Not immediately in the First World War, even medieval-ancient Roman protection appeared.
Austrian Uhlans, 1915. The First World War was the last major war to see extensive use of horses..
Do you think Austrians have chic, German-quality helmets? Oh well.
But no. These are leather hats, like baseball caps.
But no. These are leather hats, like baseball caps.
Just brightly painted in a coppery shiny color.
Why go into battle with a baseball cap like that? Shame one! Not really. Leather armor (hats, turbans, etc.) was very useful against sabers and swords. But with the entry into the arena of automatic weapons, such as a machine gun, all these hats very quickly began to show off on the tops of the gravestones. Or mass graves? Sorry.
Therefore, at the beginning of the First World War, the ancient Roman armor had to be urgently invented.
Imperial Italic * G * helmet, discovered in Hebron, Israel and dated to the early II cent. CE, with reinforcement bands and appliques of half moons on crown. Probably a spoil of war taken by Jewish zealots during the Bar Kokhba Revolt (132-135 CE).
Historians see them around AD 100-150.
BEST EVER SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET CIRCA 1600 WITH ORIGINAL PADDING.
Or in other eras.
The problem is that there they, with this ridiculous crest at the top, with ears and a back visor, cause bewilderment, both for spectators, who are not historians, and for a horse that is carrying such an iron stuffed animal.
And if you remember that the First World War was a positional and trench war, and the main characters there were sappers with tunnels, under other people's fortifications, then every detail falls into place. Necessary, important and tortured by bloody experience.
Historians, of course, are aware of the presence of sappers in the army of that time and their subversive activities, but as in the picture, in their opinion, they do not need any protective armor. Sand does not fall behind the collar (back visor), when you crawl, you do not need to protect your neck (again it). When everything collapses, you will be digging out a volume of Pushkin, and not that ridiculous comb that historians have for beauty. And there is also a torch holder on each of them. Backlight.
It is advisable to dig a tunnel carefully, quietly and imperceptibly. How can you do this while bent over into three deaths? And like this.
Bavarian * raupenhelm * (caterpillar helmet) bearing Ludwig II's monogram, from the Franco-Prussian War, 1870.
Instead of rooster or horse feathers among historians, the comb and spacer were made to cushion blows.
Anyway. What else could the armies of the early 20th century boast of? For example, ancient Roman crossbows.
Trench Cross bow - Germany.
Different models.
French workers testing arbaletes at the factory.
These have already gone into series. The French are testing industrial designs. The British do not lag behind - they invent a slingshot.
And not one!
Free Battlefield 1 map * Giant's Shadow * will introduce the Grenade Crossbow.
The French get down to business and discover the striking power of the catapult.
Without forgetting to supply the army with crossbows.
The rest are also at work. The teachings are being conducted. They work out tactics. And wood and iron, everything will do.
No15 Ball Grenade.
Then historians will pull everything out of the trenches, clean it up and declare it an ancient Roman or ancient Greek, at least medieval, military weapon.
And why is it that suddenly, with the presence of machine guns and some kind of firearms, the memory of ancestors suddenly woke up in the army? Not as distant as the textbooks tell you.
Simply, they needed a silent way of delivering ammunition to the enemy by the collar. And if you sit in a trench permanently and for a long time, then it is not the best idea to indicate your exact coordinates with the light of a volley and the thunder of a cannon shot.
A Russian adjustable mobile shield that could protect against small arms fire and shrapnel captured by the Germans, 1914.
Russian innovation that could resist a small enemy army. Probably from the Middle Ages and the capture of Kazan has been preserved. In fact, of course not.
But apparently grenade launchers with sling !!! It remains only to find the ancient Roman phalanx, for which they pave the way.
Ammunition in WW1, British Soldier and Grenades.
Here you can give examples of various types of weapons from all eras for a long time, but our knights are bored.
Drawing of a steel fighting shield used for approaching trenches during World War One.
Iron Man crawls towards enemy fortifications under fire to plant a shell in the fortress wall and slip away. This is where the expression "iron eggs" originates (in fact, there is no such information, but it could be).
Let's take a look at pictures from a book published a little later than the First World War “Helmets and Body Armor in Modern Warfare. Dean, Bashford (1920). Section of modern equipment. Not medieval.
Just like a painting by a Midievist artist.
Medieval knight piece by piece.
Helmets and shield mountains.
In general terms it is clear. It was all very recent. Or it wasn't. I will not draw any conclusions. What is the point? If the official story seems strange to you, you yourself will solve your puzzle. If you think that everything described in the textbooks is true, then some logical constructions cannot convince you. After all, you can turn everything around in another way. No less logical. Especially if you discard a couple of three uncomfortable moments.
Lastly, I'll show you where all the medieval iron of the early 20th century went. Well, except for those specimens that you see in the world's museums. But where !!!
Distributed in the colonies to the natives. This picture shows the Philippine ancient civilization of 1900. As you can see, right after the best representatives of the ancient and wise people got down from the tree, they learned how to make steel.
There were many of them around the world. I'm talking about the colonies now, not about the ancient cultures of jumping trees in armor.
Just in case, so that there is no distorted understanding. I do not mean at all that our ancestors in the First World War were wild monkeys who fought with sticks.
First, we really fought.
Secondly, this does not in any way detract from their courage or dignity or intelligence. Starting with improvised means, the war ended already with tanks and aircraft. Look, for example, what evolution the French uniform went through during the war years.
From the Middle Ages to our time in 4 years.
I just want to note that these very Middle and Ancient Ages, it seems, were much closer not just to the official history, but even to all the abbreviated Fomenkovsky ones.