Why Knight's Armor Developed Only In Europe

There's a disturbing lack of gambesons, in this video.

This video has a lot of inaccurte information

Mail was NOT for just defending against slashes and cuts. But was also incredible in terms of stab protection.

Armor was present in most ancient armies, from China to the Middle East and not only Europe, but the Europeans went further than others in it in the 15th and 16th centuries AD. The reason is that European knights were fighting primarily with lances and cavalry shocks and these required strong plate armor, the rest of Eurasian cavalry fought primarily as mounted archers , therefore, there was no need to focus heavily on armor, but despite this, armor was improved in the Middle East in the 13th and 14th centuries AD, mostly as a response to European knights during the Crusades

The horses of the knights certainly did not reach speeds of 50 to 60 miles per hour. That's the speed of a racehorse carrying a rider weighing about 120 pounds (including saddle) on his back. Another problem - breeds that reach that speed were not bred for the sport until the 18th-19th centuries. I'm moving among the stunt riders of the movies. The speed of a "war" horse with a rider in armor does not exceed 16 miles per hour. Even that's very hard on impact. Please excuse my rusty English.

Otherwise a good video, but you should use images of actual historical armor instead of horrific looking cheap modern reproductions.

The wings and their function on a spear isnt comparable to the crossguard of a sword. The crossguard is added to give something to block with. The wings on a spear is there to prevent it from sinking in too deep..

Sorry but i have a correction, the first example of knights like warriors come from the Parthian and Sarmatian cataphracts, they were the true first example of frontal charge cavalary and then rome adopted this style of cavalary with thei catafractari and buccellari, most likely the Franchi adopted their heavy cavalary style from roman auxiliaries and from serving under them as foederati

Cataphratcs and Persan Heavy Cavalry were the earliest form of heavy armor, they were the ones who brought the Knight culture in Europe through the Romans. The East developped earlier the heavy cavalry but later abandonned it due to how effective light cavalry and skirmishes were in the battlefeild. Heavy armor was less and less used as the advancement of firearm came by.

Romans did have full armour for some heavy cavalry tho they used more mail and scale but the legions marched in their armour and didn't have a team of servants to carry their kit. Also the legions paid for their own armour. You have confused the brigandine with the coat of plates. They were making steel plates for armour long before they started using water wheels to speed up production. 17 min in, Ferdinand's armour is not engraved, that is acid etching.

Free peasant villages owned land communally, and as a community owed military service in exchange for their status for part of the year, usually only weeks or months in case of emergency, with obligation to communally equip a number of their males with arms and armor, which usually was mail, so the idea only nobles and men-at-arms had mail is inaccurate. These villages, ranging from 150 to 300 people had enough money to buy mail for several males which provided that military service, whom were pretty indistinguishably equipped compared to professional soldiers.

8:45 into the video there is a major mistake: 1 mile = 1609,34 meters = 1,60934 km. So 35 mph = 56,3269 km/h. But huge thanks for including metric units!

Scythians were armourwd from head ro toe, and also their horses were armored. They lived in North of Black sea and in Iran in antiquity. The medieval knights has the stir up who geve them force. This was the main difference.

In the east the most domination units were for a long time have been horse archers and above them heavy armored horse archers. There were many lancer types but they were often seen as the second line troops, mope up units.

persian cataphract are first ultimate knights.

The Great helm isnt 11. century ! More end of 12 , century or better 13.century!

50 to 60 mph? Dam that's a fast horse.

A video about the medieval tank from Bohemia? Yes please!

After a bit more thinking on this, I believe that the early driver of European plate-armour development was their increasing reliance on the lance as the primary cavalry weapon. The practice of jousting led to the first examples of breastplates designed to deflect impacts, along with helmets designed for the same purpose. It didn't take long for them to find their way to the battlefield, or for breastplates to be adopted into harness that protected more of the body and limbs. An often overlooked aspect of the development of full-plate harness was the advantages it offered to infantry on the battlefield, which led to the adoption of two-handed polearms in lieu of shield and spear. The Swiss were probably the first to embrace this tactic, but English knights were also known to prefer fighting on foot.

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