Why European swords are straight while Eastern swords are curved? #history

🗡️ Ever wondered why European swords are straight while Eastern swords are curved? This video reveals the fascinating reasons behind this striking difference! 🤔💡

🛡️ Firstly, heavy armor was widespread in Europe, making straight swords essential for penetrating it due to concentrated striking force. ⚔️

👑 Secondly, the influence of vogue played a part as European lords looked down on curved weapons with a peasant origin. 👎

🐎 Lastly, the popularity of light cavalry in the East led to the preference for curved swords, perfect for strikes on horseback and in motion. 🏇

Discover the intriguing history and culture behind these sword styles in this educational video! 🎥🤯 #history #weapons #swords

[kurotsuchiiwa]

Not all european swords are straight and not all eastern blades are curved

[James.-csno]

In Japan bowmen rode on horseback and used their swords when they couldn’t use their bow

[Doflaminguard]

There are curved single edged sword in europe too, just not used by knights and soldiers.

[neverseemstoAsh]

just an insane amount of misinformation here, why would you even post this

like, if you want to post content about historical weapons, then great. do that. but a five second google search to get your facts straight might help

[stevepenn]

>eastern
>means the tiny island nation that was inconsequential before industrialization
Put some respect on the Chinese Jian, peasant

[JohnHumanname]

:messers and falchions “say that to my face”

[eroktartonga]

This is very wrong. There are curved and straight blades as much as short and long blades all over the world at all cultures. Same goes for armor.

[alexv]

There are curved european Swords and straight east asian ones. In some asian cultures the spread of high quality armour was similar to Europe (for example Japan) and Cavalry was not just an asian thing, european Cavalry used both straight and curved Swords in it's history, and both pretty successfull

[abramdetwiler]

That's not at all accurate. Both the East and West had heavy armor and both had straight and curved swords. Also if your opponent is wearing armor a sword is not necessarily going to be the best weapon for that fight. This video is just a bunch of bull.

[bamantioindrahidayat]

That so called noble sword of Europe cant beat a guy with a long stick