What is the best sword in history?
James Packer · That's easy. The best, most technologically advanced swords the world has ever seen were German, Spanish, and North Italian swords made between 1350 and 1550. My reasoning is simple. European metalurgy hit its zenith around this time. This was the Renaissance, and Europe was at long last beginning to form the first modern nations with populations that were finally recovering from the devestating plagues and pandemics of the late Roman and Medieval periods. During this time, European bladesmiths were creating the worlds first all-steel swords. All other swords elsewhere and before were amalgamated or composite swords made of varying amounts of steel layered with or encasing soft iron. Medieval Japanese swords are such, which is why they are made and shaped the way they are. These new European swords were the first which were steel throughout. They were able to take advantage of marvelous advances in the mass production and methodology of steel production which ...