Longbow was the english heavy duty armor piercing weapon to deafeat knights

Morningstar was a helmet crusher but its very dangerous and hit yourself if you not careful

The lowly spear has always been pretty good, a long spear defeats calvary

The sword is for close encounters

Teams of archers were the artillery of the past where they would rain down and soften resistence

The first musketeers were just teams of coordinated shooters, more or less archers basically

Ranged? archery, spears, atlatl, slings, axes, chakram, rocks etcetera

We've always liked to throw SH at each other

Greek fire

can't forget about the missile launchers like the catapult and trebuchet...

Originally posted by HypersleepyNaputunia:

Longbow was the english heavy duty armor piercing weapon to deafeat knights

Longbows didn't actually penetrate armor. At Agincourt, they knocked the knights off their horses into the thick mud, which tripped up the guys behind them, leaving them helpless and unable to stand up again.

Originally posted by Talby:

can't forget about the missile launchers like the catapult and trebuchet...

balista too

Originally posted by angus:

I'd like to ask if the military equipment of many countries originated from Chinese gunpowder? If there was no gunpowder, what equipment did the military use in the past?

Gunpowder came from China and it spread.

Ancient weapons, A good starting point is to look at Ancient Rome and their adversaries.

I say this because Rome encountered all sorts of people across the ancient world.

Couple of other areas is the Sparta Bronze for weapons and later the Celtic Iron Swords.
Big subject, really worth reading into.

spanish inquisition genocided the mayans and aztec with gun powder by tricking them with mirrors because they were running out of money. they wanted their jade and gold

knowledge is powa!