Name: 歴史上最も偉大な10の戦士文化 (10 Greatest Warrior Cultures in History)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:04:51.000Z
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From the medieval knights of Europe, in full plate armour, to the silent ninja-assassins

of Japan. Which warrior culture from history, were the fastest, deadliest and most adept

at killing? Who will take the crown? Let's find out.

First up is the ancient Mexican civilisation of the Aztecs. War was such an integral part

of Aztec culture. That when a new Aztec leader was elected it was expected of him to immediately

wage a military campaign against an enemy tribe to prove his worth. When Aztecs attacked

an enemy they had two goals, firstly to take their land and make it theirs and secondly

to take prisoners so they could sacrifice them to the gods. Making the Aztec warriors

a force to be feared, because unlike most fighting forces that will give you a clean

death the Aztecs were a lot more brutish when it came to disposing of their enemies.

Prisoners of war would often be strangled or stoned to death during religious ceremonies.

They were masters of fear and intimidation. In fact they designed a special musical instrument

that had the sole purpose of intimidating the enemy before a battle.

It was called the Aztec death whistle and it was in the shape of a skull; it produced

a truly horrific sound. This is the noise it made when you blew into it. That's just

one whistle. Now imagine a thousand Aztec warriors charging towards you whilst blowing

on a thousand death whistles in a bone-chilling symphony. I don't know about you but I'd be

The Mongols were an Asian army led by the revered Genghis Khan. They were focused on

one goal - destruction. They destroyed and conquered everything in their paths. They

took no prisoners and were widely considered as a bunch of barbarians and savages.

Their combat skills however, have been matched by few throughout history. They fought on

horseback and were masters of the bow and arrow. They specialised in shooting arrows

whilst riding their horses at high speeds, and they were bloody good at it.

They used a variety of different bows and arrows, such as the composite bow which specialised

in ripping through armour. They also used their so called "howling" arrows that would

emit a terrifying sound whilst flying through the air, this sound would disorientate the

enemy and cause panic. Their fearsome fighting prowess allowed Genghis Khan and his Mongol

army to conquer more of the world that any other empire in history.

The Māori are the indigenous people of New Zealand. They were well known for eating their

conquered foes, because they believed they would gain their mana. Mana was at the core

of the Māori's beliefs. Mana was believed to be spiritual power and prestige.

The Maori would intimidate their enemies by performing a special dance before a fight

called the Haka Peruperu. The same dance is still performed today by New Zealand's official

rugby team, the All Blacks, before every game, to intimidate their opponents.

Next up are the masters of stealth, the silent assassins known as Ninjas. They started off

as humble farmers, but unsatisfied with the way they were being treated by the samurai

military. They trained rigorously in the shadows to become silent, deadly killers and rose

But, being poor farmers, they couldn't defeat the samurai in open combat, because, unlike

the samurai they had no armour. So they devised ways to be unseen and kill the samurai when

the least expected it, in the most underhanded and devious ways. They were known for their

superior ability to kill and disappear in seconds.

Owning weapons was illegal in Japan for anyone expect the samurai military. So ninjas had

to fashion their weapons out of simple farming tools such as the sickle - which they turned

They also used a short sword called a ninjatō, similar to a Katana, but shorter. The ninjatō

They also had an arsenal of long range weapons such as the poisonous blowgun, the deadly

shuriken, or ninja star. As well as black eggs which were egg shells painted black and

filled with ground up shards of glass. Their purpose was to blind and disorientate the

enemy, ninjas would throw them into their opponent's face, blinding them and causing

Next up is the Persian Immortals. They served as the imperial guard for the Persian Empire.

The immortals were a group of heavy infantry that stood 10,000 strong. They got their name

because they never seemed to die, every time an immortal died, fell ill, was injured or

died in battle, they were instantly replaced by another reserve immortal - so there was

Also, if an immortal died during combat their body would be immediately pulled from the

battle field by the other immortals, and replaced by a new immortal from the reserves. This

was done to maintain the impression that they were un-killable, hence the name.

They fought with shields and spears and also used a bow and arrow from afar. They weren't

particularly skilled with the bow, but it didn't matter because they would overwhelm

their enemies by firing thousands of arrows all in unison, leaving the enemy with nowhere

Next up is the foundation of the Roman army, the Roman legion. They were the infantry that

helped to conquer and create the most powerful empire in the history of the world, the Roman

Empire. The Roman Empire was large and wealthy and the Roman legion, therefore, had the best

armour, swords, shields and spears that money could buy. They went to the effort of covering

themselves in all that nice armour and then they wore sandals, seriously.

But sandals aside, they were masters of the shield and spear combination. But what made

the Roman legion and subsequently the Roman empire so successful was the fact that they

were constantly adapting. As soon as they found fighting practices and techniques that

were better than their own, they would instantly abandon their old ways in favour of the new

techniques. This enabled them to always stay ahead of their enemies and hold the Roman

In training they would focus on mastering the thrust of a sword or spear, instead of

the slash. The thrust was far more lethal when facing armoured opponents and meant the

Roman legion had higher kill rates than their enemies during battles.

Next up is a fearless band of warriors bound by honour and duty, of course I'm talking

about the samurai. They mastered the sharpest sword that has ever been forged, the legendary,

the deadly, katana. The katana could easily slice a man in half in the right hands.

Samurai were highly trained and incredibly disciplined killing machines. They led their

lives by the code of Bushido, meaning the "way of the warrior". But by far what made

the samurai so unbelievably deadly was that they weren't afraid to give their lives for

their masters. They were trained to believe that, before all things, a samurai should

constantly keep in the forefront of his mind a simple, inevitable truth that "they had

to die". And if they didn't achieve their goals or their master's goals before dying

Because of these beliefs, if a samurai failed in battle they would commit ritual suicide,

often voluntarily, but sometimes as a punishment from their masters. This ritual suicide was

known as "seppuku", and involved the Samurai stabbing himself in his stomach with a short

sword then dragging the blade to the left or right to slice open his abdomen and disembowel