Thursday, December 17, 2009

Its it a dagger or is it a sword or is it a knife






So I’ve always wondered if the sword or dagger or knife came first so I figured it would make a great blog to find out. First was the knife the knife is the very first tool ever created by man. The dagger was slightly longer and developed alongside the battle axe. Like the battle axe the dagger was a formed by specializing the knife into a tool designed specifically for killing humans. The main difference between a knife and dagger is that a knife is a single edged cutting tool where as the dagger is a doubled edged weapon designed primarily for stabbing. The sword didn’t develop until after the invention of the metal known as bronze. The sword is a weapon that developed slowly from the lessons learned from the dagger. One of the biggest differences between swords and its other bladed counterparts is that swords are the only blades designed for military use only. Also the sword is very difficult to conceal and thus the

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