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A taut string and a stick that quietly ruled warfare for ten thousand years.
means A weapon made of a curved, flexible length of wood (or other springy material) strung tight to launch arrows, also used as the implement for playing string instruments like the violin.
from From Old English 'boga,' meaning a bow, arch, or anything bent, tracing back to a Proto-Germanic root '*bugon-' and ultimately a Proto-Indo-European base meaning 'to bend.' That same bending-root quietly connects this 'bow' to its homographs and relatives — the bow you bend at the waist, the bowed branch, the elbow. The weapon, the curtsy, and the violinist's stroke all share one ancient idea: something that flexes and springs.
- english longbow
- Drew over 100 pounds, deforming archers' skeletons
- agincourt 1415
- Outnumbered English bows shredded French knights
- draw speed
- Skilled archers loosed arrows every few seconds
- ancient tech
- Bows predate writing by tens of thousands of years
- mongol mastery
- Composite bows fired accurately from galloping horseback
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