China chose bows over guns for centuries

Monday, January 17, 2011 - 09:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Ease of training rather than performance was the main reason guns took over as the primary weapons of war in Europe, but firearms coexisted with bows for 1,000 years in China, a study says.

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