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I have been looking at many crossbow videos recently and what I was imagining/wondering is what kind of effective bows could have been developed and used if there was no gunpowder.

So, there is the modern crossbow, what improvements that are related to the modern crossbow over the older crossbow could have been made, with pre-industrial revolution technology?

You can also talk about other projectile weapons. Any place, any age. Doesn't have to be from medieval age, can be romans, or even from China or elsewhere.

What specific type of projectile weapon was the most effective projectile weapon that developed historically? (pre modern crossbows, obviously excluding again gunpowder).
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