Greek Fire, the Most Powerful Weapon of Byzantine Army

"War is the father of all people." 1 Volkman started the work of "Science to War" at Greek philosopher Heraclitus. Volckmann used this sentence to show that, if not all, scientific progress is due to war or desire for war. As Bath Hall pointed out, a fire is certainly part of this progress. "Fire is one of the natural forces of nature.The combustion weapons are in the military tool box as much as the civilized country." "All tools of Byzantine empire", the so-called "Greek Fire power "is the most important. 3 Greek firepower is a weapon system that enables Byzantine ships.

In 672, Byzantine released a new weapon called Greek fire. The fire was thrown by the enemy and it could not be erased without being extinguished with water. The person invented by the Greek fire was the Syrian who lived in Karisas, Byzantine Empire. Greek fire was used to deal with aggressive Muslim fleets. The Greek fire formula is a secret, and even the emperor may not know its composition. Greek fire was thrown into a glass container and pushed by a pump. The fire in Greece has lost its history, and no one is completely convinced how to make it today. Greek fire helped save the Byzantine Empire and Christianity for hundreds of years. Constantinople eventually fell to the Turkish cannon in 1453. Although the castle walls of Constantinople collapsed, the culture and thought of the Byzantine empire shifted to the western part of Christianity and attracted new attention to classical Greek and Roman thought called Renaissance.

672 AD: A Greek fire in the Byzantine empire of Constantinople: A burning weapon based on petroleum or naphtha invented by Kallinikos of Ballybeck, a Greek refugee. However, the historical and accurate chronology of this account is suspicious, and it may only be that Kallinikos introduced an improved version of the established weapon. 7th century: Chinese banknotes of the Tang Dynasty: This note was first developed during the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty of China and started in the 7th century. The fundamental cause is that the merchants and wholesalers wanted to avoid a large amount of copper in large-scale commercial transactions, so it is in the Tang Dynasty receipt (618-907).