Actor and fight master Peter Woodward teaches the Conquest Team a brief history of pirates. The team learns about the weapons of 17th-century Caribbean pirates and various combat techniques with them, both offensive and defensive. Then the team members face off against the crew of a merchant vessel to find out if they have learned how to win with pirate weapons.
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Actor and fight master Peter Woodward returns to the days of chivalry to find out why personal armor developed--from horn and linen to chain mail to full plate. We visit an armorer's workshop to see how it was made, and our expert team tries on various types, including the classic medieval plate armor, to assess their strengths and weaknesses, and tests fighting techniques with various knightly armor-piercing weapons. Then, we put the armored knight in his proper place--mounted on a charger!

The Roman Empire seemed destined to conquer the world. Their relentless march was tested time and again against the unorthodox weaponry of the Celtic and Germanic Barbarian hordes. Join Peter Woodward and his Conquest team as they explore the weapons and strategies employed by the Barbarians to stand and triumph against the Roman tide.