• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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    3 days ago

    Plate armor is generally accepted to have been created ~1400 AD in Europe.

    The Romans, however, had a form of armor made of steel plates back ~100 AD, and are thus mocking the later ‘barbarians’ for thinking they invented it.

    Long before the Romans, the Myceneans in Greece had a period around ~1500 BCE in which they used armor made of overlapping bronze plates