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Compound bow requires very precise metal work and advanced material. You can invent the compound bow earlier, but you can't craft it without required tech. Oth
by ezoe 7y ago
Compound bow requires very precise metal work and advanced material. You can invent the compound bow earlier, but you can't craft it without required tech.
Other example is the ski. We have to wait until 1970s for modern ski, metal edge(good adhesive between wood and metal), polyethylene, modern wax, safe bindings... all requires various technologies and we had to wait until 1970s.
- nitwit005 7y agoIf you take a look at the original bow, I think we'd agree they probably could have managed: https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2017/28/63937289_1485711836.jpg https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2017/28/63937289_148571... There are a lot of things ancient people could have made but didn't. People have made gliders with only primitive materials, but no one was gliding around the ancient world (except, very very quickly to the ground). It was not purely a lack of materials.