The Counter Weight Trebuchet

The trebuchet was inspired by the sling. The traction trebuchet was made by the Chinese in the 4^th century BC (300 BC). The traction trebuchet is basically a giant sling. The trebuchet is a great siege weapon because it can sling giant boulders, flaming boulders, and dead body’s to cause infection at or above walls from a very great distance away and out of reach of the archers. The traction trebuchet requires lots of men to pull on ropes to sling projectiles but the counter weight trebuchet has a giant weight on it to make it fall down, making the other end fly up kinda like a seesaw. The counter weight trebuchet is one of the best war machines and catapults ever seen in Europe and China.