This history of warfare timeline poster will help your students better understand how warfare developed over the centuries from c. 1200 AD to the present day.
Teaching History of Warfare? Download this poster to help your history students better visualise the history of warfare!
Arranged thematically, this poster looks at the changes in the composition of the army, the development of weaponry, and the experience of war from c. 1200 AD to the present day. Key battles and wars are also illustrated, so that students can see the context in which developments were being made.
As well as the technological and strategic developments, your students will see how the developments in warfare were affected by and being affected by the social and political context.
We hope you find this a useful classroom tool and that it provokes some interesting classroom discussions!
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Teaching history of warfare?
Don't forget, a school trip is another fantastic way to bring the history of warfare to life for your students!