The Importance of Cultural Values in Weapon Design

I kind of feel like this particular weapon design is reflective of who those weapon designers already had to work with and their environment. And I suspect that if we went to other people groups, maybe I'm not quite as intimately familiar with that a lot of the same evolved. These people use these weapons because it fits their enculturation. The whole hoplite, phalanx thing, it's not just a military unit. It's a culture. They certainly married together really well.