Every time a country goes to war, the people are changed. There are only a select few battles that have changed history. Some events that have changed the world before the year 1660 are the Battle of Actium, the Battle of Tours and the Hundred Years War. The Battle of Actium was a naval battle that occurred on September 2, 31 BC. Mark Antony and Octavian went to battle in what was a civil war in Rome. Antony's …showed first 75 words of 509 total…

…showed last 75 words of 509 total…of warfare. The introduction of new weapons and tactics destroyed the older system of the feudal armies. The new weapons that were brought into this long war were the longbow and firearms. The longbow was not a new weapon, but the way it was used altered how the French had to go about attacking the English archers. Because of the Hundred Years War, armies were forced to create new weapons to out-perform an enemy's weaponry.