Even armies with early guns had trouble with them. It's impressive that anyone managed to fend that off with swords and bows.
Very true. Which is why adjacent powers used a combination of war, diplomacy, intermarriage, and setting nomadic tribes against each other.
I used to like history memes, a long time ago.
That was just pop culture meme back then
But then you took an arrow to the knee?
We do at historymemes.
I expected old memes posted anew, but what I got was new memes about ye oldlen times.
I am not dissapointed.
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