Select all that apply. Which statements about medieval siege engines are correct?
A trebuchet was a very large crossbow that shot a single great bolt
Catapults and trebuchets threw stones at walls and at the buildings behind them✓الإجابة الصحيحة
Catapults and trebuchets were early cannon that used gunpowder to fire
A trebuchet swung its throwing arm by dropping a heavy counterweight✓الإجابة الصحيحة
الشرح
Both engines stored energy mechanically and released it to hurl a heavy projectile on a high curve, and the larger of the two drove its arm by letting a weighted beam fall. Calling such an engine a giant crossbow fails because that describes a different weapon which shoots a bolt flat along a groove rather than lobbing stone shot over a wall.