A weapon is any instrument that is used in combat. Primitive people first fought with hands, teeth, and feet. Then they discover that rocks or pieces of wood could be used weapons. Gradually, they learned how to bows and arrows and to turn wood and stone into knives, spears, and axes. And they invented the sling, a looped strap in which stone was whirled and sent flying toward a target. During the Bronze Age, primitive made discovered how to make objects from bronc an alloy of tin and copper. Bronze weapons were stronger and deadlier than those made stone. Swords were first made during this tin