Sling Siege Engine List
A viewset for viewing and editing Sling Siege Engines.
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, Oxford, 398.§REF§" }, { "id": 103, "polity": { "id": 63, "name": "gr_crete_mono_palace", "long_name": "Monopalatial Crete", "start_year": -1450, "end_year": -1300 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 104, "polity": { "id": 59, "name": "gr_crete_nl", "long_name": "Neolithic Crete", "start_year": -7000, "end_year": -3000 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 105, "polity": { "id": 62, "name": "gr_crete_new_palace", "long_name": "New Palace Crete", "start_year": -1700, "end_year": -1450 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 106, "polity": { "id": 61, "name": "gr_crete_old_palace", "long_name": "Old Palace Crete", "start_year": -1900, "end_year": -1700 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 107, "polity": { "id": 64, "name": "gr_crete_post_palace_1", "long_name": "Postpalatial Crete", "start_year": -1300, "end_year": -1200 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 108, "polity": { "id": 60, "name": "gr_crete_pre_palace", "long_name": "Prepalatial Crete", "start_year": -3000, "end_year": -1900 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 109, "polity": { "id": 17, "name": "us_hawaii_1", "long_name": "Hawaii I", "start_year": 1000, "end_year": 1200 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " §REF§Kirch, P. V. 2010. How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai’i. Berkeley: University of California Press.§REF§" }, { "id": 110, "polity": { "id": 18, "name": "us_hawaii_2", "long_name": "Hawaii II", "start_year": 1200, "end_year": 1580 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " §REF§Kirch, P. V. 2010. How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai’i. Berkeley: University of California Press.§REF§" }, { "id": 111, "polity": { "id": 19, "name": "us_hawaii_3", "long_name": "Hawaii III", "start_year": 1580, "end_year": 1778 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 112, "polity": { "id": 153, "name": "id_iban_1", "long_name": "Iban - Pre-Brooke", "start_year": 1650, "end_year": 1841 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 113, "polity": { "id": 154, "name": "id_iban_2", "long_name": "Iban - Brooke Raj and Colonial", "start_year": 1841, "end_year": 1987 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 114, "polity": { "id": 46, "name": "id_buni", "long_name": "Java - Buni Culture", "start_year": -400, "end_year": 500 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 115, "polity": { "id": 47, "name": "id_kalingga_k", "long_name": "Kalingga Kingdom", "start_year": 500, "end_year": 732 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": " Indian military terms surviving in Javanese include 'fortress' and 'siege'.§REF§(Kumara 2007, 161) Sasiprabha Kumara. 2007. Sanskrit Across Cultures. Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Delhi.§REF§" }, { "id": 116, "polity": { "id": 49, "name": "id_kediri_k", "long_name": "Kediri Kingdom", "start_year": 1049, "end_year": 1222 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": " Indian military terms surviving in Javanese include 'fortress' and 'siege'.§REF§(Kumara 2007, 161) Sasiprabha Kumara. 2007. Sanskrit Across Cultures. Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Delhi.§REF§" }, { "id": 117, "polity": { "id": 50, "name": "id_majapahit_k", "long_name": "Majapahit Kingdom", "start_year": 1292, "end_year": 1518 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": " Indian military terms surviving in Javanese include 'fortress' and 'siege'.§REF§(Kumara 2007, 161) Sasiprabha Kumara. 2007. Sanskrit Across Cultures. Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Delhi.§REF§" }, { "id": 118, "polity": { "id": 51, "name": "id_mataram_k", "long_name": "Mataram Sultanate", "start_year": 1568, "end_year": 1755 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "IFR", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "present", "comment": null, "description": " Stones thrown at enemy.§REF§(Schrieke 1957, 124)§REF§" }, { "id": 119, "polity": { "id": 48, "name": "id_medang_k", "long_name": "Medang Kingdom", "start_year": 732, "end_year": 1019 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": " Indian military terms surviving in Javanese include 'fortress' and 'siege'.§REF§(Kumara 2007, 161) Sasiprabha Kumara. 2007. Sanskrit Across Cultures. Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Delhi.§REF§" }, { "id": 120, "polity": { "id": 103, "name": "il_canaan", "long_name": "Canaan", "start_year": -2000, "end_year": -1175 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 121, "polity": { "id": 110, "name": "il_judea", "long_name": "Yehuda", "start_year": -141, "end_year": -63 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Not known outside of China until the 6th Century CE." }, { "id": 122, "polity": { "id": 105, "name": "il_yisrael", "long_name": "Yisrael", "start_year": -1030, "end_year": -722 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 123, "polity": { "id": 416, "name": "in_ayodhya_k", "long_name": "Kingdom of Ayodhya", "start_year": -64, "end_year": 34 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " First historically known sling siege engines used by the Byzantine Empire." }, { "id": 124, "polity": { "id": 92, "name": "in_badami_chalukya_emp", "long_name": "Chalukyas of Badami", "start_year": 543, "end_year": 753 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Byzantines, or perhaps the Chinese, were the first." }, { "id": 125, "polity": { "id": 94, "name": "in_kalyani_chalukya_emp", "long_name": "Chalukyas of Kalyani", "start_year": 973, "end_year": 1189 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " First used by the Byzantines or perhaps the Chinese." }, { "id": 126, "polity": { "id": 86, "name": "in_deccan_ia", "long_name": "Deccan - Iron Age", "start_year": -1200, "end_year": -300 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Much later, Byzantines or possibly Chinese were the first to use sling siege engines" }, { "id": 127, "polity": { "id": 88, "name": "in_post_mauryan_k", "long_name": "Post-Mauryan Kingdoms", "start_year": -205, "end_year": -101 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Much later, Byzantines or possibly Chinese were the first to use sling siege engines" }, { "id": 128, "polity": { "id": 85, "name": "in_deccan_nl", "long_name": "Deccan - Neolithic", "start_year": -2700, "end_year": -1200 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Much later, Byzantines or possibly Chinese were the first to use sling siege engines" }, { "id": 129, "polity": { "id": 135, "name": "in_delhi_sultanate", "long_name": "Delhi Sultanate", "start_year": 1206, "end_year": 1526 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "present", "comment": null, "description": " The siege engines are not fully described in the historical texts, but they were used in battles to throw large balls, naphtha and fireworks. §REF§Qureshi, I. H. (1971). The administration of the Sultanate of Delhi (p. 93). Oriental Books Reprint Corporation; exclusively distributed by Munshiram Manoharlal, pp.145-146.§REF§" }, { "id": 130, "polity": { "id": 111, "name": "in_achik_1", "long_name": "Early A'chik", "start_year": 1775, "end_year": 1867 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 131, "polity": { "id": 112, "name": "in_achik_2", "long_name": "Late A'chik", "start_year": 1867, "end_year": 1956 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 132, "polity": { "id": 405, "name": "in_gahadavala_dyn", "long_name": "Gahadavala Dynasty", "start_year": 1085, "end_year": 1193 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 133, "polity": { "id": 388, "name": "in_gupta_emp", "long_name": "Gupta Empire", "start_year": 320, "end_year": 550 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 134, "polity": { "id": 95, "name": "in_hoysala_k", "long_name": "Hoysala Kingdom", "start_year": 1108, "end_year": 1346 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": " Unknown: temple reliefs, the main source for information on Hoysala warfare, \"provide no information, however, on how forts were attacked.\" §REF§(Sardar 2007, p. 32§REF§" }, { "id": 135, "polity": { "id": 91, "name": "in_kadamba_emp", "long_name": "Kadamba Empire", "start_year": 345, "end_year": 550 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Byzantines or perhaps Chinese first used gravity-powered sling machines." }, { "id": 136, "polity": { "id": 96, "name": "in_kampili_k", "long_name": "Kampili Kingdom", "start_year": 1280, "end_year": 1327 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 137, "polity": { "id": 384, "name": "in_mahajanapada", "long_name": "Mahajanapada era", "start_year": -600, "end_year": -324 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Introduced later. §REF§DeVries, Kelly. \"siege engines.\" In The Oxford Companion to Military History. : Oxford University Press, 2001.§REF§" }, { "id": 138, "polity": { "id": 87, "name": "in_mauryan_emp", "long_name": "Magadha - Maurya Empire", "start_year": -324, "end_year": -187 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " First historically known sling siege engines used by the Byzantine Empire." }, { "id": 139, "polity": { "id": 98, "name": "in_mughal_emp", "long_name": "Mughal Empire", "start_year": 1526, "end_year": 1858 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "present", "comment": null, "description": " \"Aside from the massive cannon and mortars, a number of more old-fashioned weapons were also present at sieges. Catapults and trebuchets remained in Indian siege trains for decades after Babur’s invasion. A few distinct advantages saved them from immediate obsolescence. They were inexpensive and could be easily broken down for transport and assembled in the field. Like mortars they sent missiles on a high trajectory, ideal for indirect fire. They could also be loaded with ammunition too fragile to be fired from a cannon—gunpowder bombs and canisters of incendiary or caustic chemicals.\" §REF§(De la Garza 2010, p. 123)§REF§ <span style=\"color:blue\">(KB: Added present code as trebuchet is sling siege engine according to codebook)</span>" }, { "id": 140, "polity": { "id": 93, "name": "in_rashtrakuta_emp", "long_name": "Rashtrakuta Empire", "start_year": 753, "end_year": 973 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " First used by the Byzantines or perhaps the Chinese." }, { "id": 141, "polity": { "id": 89, "name": "in_satavahana_emp", "long_name": "Satavahana Empire", "start_year": -100, "end_year": 200 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Much later, Byzantines or possibly Chinese were the first to use sling siege engines" }, { "id": 142, "polity": { "id": 90, "name": "in_vakataka_k", "long_name": "Vakataka Kingdom", "start_year": 255, "end_year": 550 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Byzantines, or perhaps the Chinese, were the first." }, { "id": 143, "polity": { "id": 97, "name": "in_vijayanagara_emp", "long_name": "Vijayanagara Empire", "start_year": 1336, "end_year": 1646 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 144, "polity": { "id": 132, "name": "iq_abbasid_cal_1", "long_name": "Abbasid Caliphate I", "start_year": 750, "end_year": 946 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "IFR", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Abbasids had the manjaniq, a swing beam engine similiar to the Western Trebuchet. §REF§Kennedy, The Armies of the Caliphs p. 184§REF§ Manjaniq was man-powered not gravity powered? §REF§(Nicolle 2003, 14) Nicolle, David. 2003. Medieval Siege Weapons (2): Byzantium, the Islamic World and India AD 476-1526. Osprey Publishing.§REF§ First known use of the counter-weight trebuchet 1165 CE at Byzantine siege of Zevgminon.§REF§(Turnball 2002) Turnball, S. 2002. Siege Weapons of the Far East (1): AD 612-1300. Osprey Publishing.§REF§" }, { "id": 145, "polity": { "id": 484, "name": "iq_abbasid_cal_2", "long_name": "Abbasid Caliphate II", "start_year": 1191, "end_year": 1258 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "present", "comment": null, "description": " First known use of the counter-weight trebuchet was in 1165 CE by the Byzantines at the siege of Zevgminon.§REF§(Turnball 2002) Turnball, S. 2002. Siege Weapons of the Far East (1): AD 612-1300. Osprey Publishing.§REF§ <i>Need to confirm with an expert source whether a scholar named Mardi bin Ali al-Tarsusi created an \"instruction manual\" on the counter-weight trebuchet for Saladin (Ayyubid Sultanate) in 1187 CE. It's logical copies would soon be made of this effective new technology.</i>" }, { "id": 146, "polity": { "id": 476, "name": "iq_akkad_emp", "long_name": "Akkadian Empire", "start_year": -2270, "end_year": -2083 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " The counter-weight trebuchet was first used by the Byzantines in 1165 CE." }, { "id": 147, "polity": { "id": 475, "name": "iq_early_dynastic", "long_name": "Early Dynastic", "start_year": -2900, "end_year": -2500 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "IFR", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " This type of engine is known from ancient time, and the first evidence came from 4th century BC. §REF§Campbel 2003,3, 8.§REF§" }, { "id": 148, "polity": { "id": 106, "name": "iq_neo_assyrian_emp", "long_name": "Neo-Assyrian Empire", "start_year": -911, "end_year": -612 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " The counter-weight trebuchet was first used by the Byzantines in 1165 CE." }, { "id": 149, "polity": { "id": 346, "name": "iq_neo_babylonian_emp", "long_name": "Neo-Babylonian Empire", "start_year": -626, "end_year": -539 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": true, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "present", "comment": null, "description": " The Babylonian Chronicles detail the fall of Assyria. They state that the king of Akkad (Babylonia) bought siege engines against the city of Rahilu, but it does not specify what kind of siege engine. §REF§Liverani, M. 2011. The Ancient Near East: History, Society and Economy. London: Routledge. p.538§REF§" }, { "id": 150, "polity": { "id": 346, "name": "iq_neo_babylonian_emp", "long_name": "Neo-Babylonian Empire", "start_year": -626, "end_year": -539 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": true, "name": "Sling_siege_engine", "sling_siege_engine": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " The Babylonian Chronicles detail the fall of Assyria. They state that the king of Akkad (Babylonia) bought siege engines against the city of Rahilu, but it does not specify what kind of siege engine. §REF§Liverani, M. 2011. The Ancient Near East: History, Society and Economy. London: Routledge. p.538§REF§" } ] }