Pike

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Invention

Domain

History and politics

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What Wikipedia says

A pike is a long thrusting spear formerly used in European warfare from the Late Middle Ages and most of the early modern period, and wielded by foot soldiers deployed in pike square formation, until it was largely replaced by bayonet-equipped muskets.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Pike (weapon)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 fr, via Wikimedia Commons.