Weapon

A weapon is a tool used to multiply the amount of damage that a human can do to another human, animal or thing. A weapon may be anything from a simple lever? such as a club? (which increases the force of a blow through increased angular momentum) to an ICBM (inter-continental ballistic missile)

A list of weapons, in roughly ascending technological order:

• rock in hand
• thrown rock
• club?
• knife
• sling (includes the stave sling, and glans)
• Spear
• Spear with woomera? or atlatl?
• slingshot (shanghai)
• short bow?
• sword
• [siege engine]?
• [long bow]?
• crossbow
• [compound bow]?
• gun
• etc