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A warrior is a guardian specializing in combat or warfare, especially within the context of a tribal or clan-based warrior culture society that recognizes a separate warrior aristocracy, class, or caste.
They are as varied as the cultures, places, and time periods from which they come. Some fight unarmed, while others wield weapons of varying degrees of complexity and power. Some warriors belong to professional armies, while others are trained in less official modes and places, while still others are essentially untrained altogether.
Some fight unarmed, while others wield weapons of varying degrees of complexity and power. Some warriors belong to professional armies, while others are training in less official modes and places, while still others are essentially untrained altogether. Warriors can have great similarities across cultures; many cultures have archers, swordsmen ...
Warfare is known to every tribal society, but some societies develop a particular emphasis of warrior culture. Examples includes the Nuer of South Sudan, [2] the Māori of New Zealand, the Dugum Dani of Papua, [2] and the Yanomami (dubbed "the Fierce People") of the Amazon. [2] The culture of inter-tribal warfare has long been present in New ...
Fu Hao had entered the royal household by marriage and took advantage of the semi-matriarchal slave society to rise through the ranks. [7] Fu Hao is known to modern scholars mainly from inscriptions on Shang dynasty oracle bone artifacts unearthed at Yinxu. [8] In these inscriptions she is shown to have led numerous military campaigns.
Fictional warrior cultures and militaristic societies that are heavily focused on martial lifestyles and violent combat. Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
The female warrior samurai Hangaku Gozen in a woodblock print by Yoshitoshi (c. 1885). The peasant Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) led the French army to important victories in the Hundred Years' War. The only direct portrait of Joan of Arc has not survived; this artist's interpretation was painted between AD 1450 and 1500.
A continuity of an "animal-shaped raid culture" has been also postulated based on various elements attested in later Indo-European-speaking cultures, such as the Germanic Berserkers, the Italic Ver Sacrum, and the Spartan Crypteia, [111] [112] as well as in the mythical Celtic fianna and Vedic Maruts, [113] and in the legend of the werewolf ...