The History of Swords:

Swords have changed with the abilities of man to forge and work metals. The first swords are generally considered to have appeared around 2,000 before Christ during the Bronze Age. A sword is a bladed weapon , consisting in its most fundamental design of a blade and a handle. The blade is usually of some metal ground and at least one sharp edge and often has a pointed tip for thrusting. The handle, is the hilt and can be made of many materials, but the material most common is wood covered by leather , a skin or metal wiring.

 The Bronze Age:

The ability to work with metals, improved longer blades and were possible to make the dagger evolved into the sword. This happened in several parts of the world during the Bronze Age (2,000 BC to ca. 1400 BC). The Bronze Age sword was predominantly a stabbing weapon with a very small leaf shaped hilt. Early swords were made of solid bronze or copper ,these were hard, but quite brittle. until iron could be forged, the sword become truly an important weapon. Soon, smiths learned that with a proper amount of coal (specifically the carbon in coal) in the iron, another metal (alloy really) could be produced is steel .

The Iron Age:

Around the 13th century Before Christ, Iron working skills brought afcource the Iron sword. And it is mostly inferior to the well made bronze sword as it was an easier sword to make and could be produced in mass quantities. The Iron sword made a tremendous advance when it was discovered that by adding a small amount of carbon during the smelting process, steel could be made. So that armies could be supplied with swords. This created a sword far more stronger and durable than the iron sword.

The Middle Ages:

Around the 11th to 13th century, the sword had its first major change. The quillion or cross guard was added. The swords of this period were both single and double edged and were used as cutting weapons.

Swords began to lose their military uses in the late 18th century because of increasing availability and reliability of gunpowder weapons. Swords were still used but only to limited officers and ceremonial uniforms.

    The Middle Ages, after the 13^th century: Wile Armor has advances in its ability to protect so the sword the also made advances in its ability to thwart the defenses. Some of the advances during this period are the longer handle which allowed for two handed use and a variety of specialized swords that could cut and thrust.

The Renaissance:
During The Renaissance, swords changed in history as they became more of a fashion item than a soldier's weapon., becose of the gunpowder. With renaissance societies fascination with the new sport of fencing (a civilian version of military cut-and-thrust swordplay), it wasn't long before specialized renaissance swords and daggers became the hottest items to own.

Swords were no longer a battlefield weapon as they had been once before. Things like the firearms, the discarding of body armor and changes in warfare all contributed to the decline of the sword as a military weapon. Now serving as a backup weapon, a soldier's sword was primarily used as a last line of defense by the cavalry and infantry.

There are several hundred types of swords.

Parts of the sword:

The cutting part of a sword is the blade . In single-edged swords, the non-cutting edit is the back. The blade may also have grooves or fullers.

The hilt is the handle of a sword, and consists of the guard, the grip, and the pommel. It may also have a tassel or sword knot.

The tang is is the part of the blade extending from the top of the blade through the hilt and the grip. The sword is often held together by a nut screwed onto the tang above the pomel.