De Armorum Vita

Abstract

The arms are united from their origin to the order and its history because they have been the shelter before ferocious beings and the acechante nature, serving like essential answer to the weakness as their hands and their body to him. They are because the arms the instrument of the privileged mind of a being who needed urgent way an average one for his Earth survival. Throughout several temporary horizons we will see appear some emblematic arms for the aim of the human survival. In the age of stone the axe, the wave, the knife and the arc, stood out until the iron gave a new composition them that did of the sword, the shield, sends and to the car military the symbols armed of the antiquity next to our days. The Christian millenium was born of the devastation of the old world where walls, rams and horsemen in armor represented the ecuestre horizon that existed until modernity did of the firearms with tubes, arcabuces, mosquetes, pistols and guns a time marked by the fire and the powder. The fire and the coal would give origin towards century XVIII to an age of the steel, where the arms became more precise and where machine guns, tanks and guns would be to the present time the actors of the infinite drama between the causes that are defended for or or for badly of the unfortunate men.