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WHAT ARE THE MEDIEVAL CROSSBOWS LIKE?
Impeller weapon, consisting of a bow mounted on a straight base that fires projectiles called arrows, bolts, or bolts. Crossbows played an important role in warfare in Europe, North Africa, and Asia. The crossbow could be fired from the ground, on foot or from horseback, and did not require as much skill as the bow to hit the target. Its slow loading time was a big drawback.
It appears around the 10th century during the siege warfare in Northern France and quickly spread throughout Europe. Necessity was what created this type of weapon and it is that the war demanded a more powerful bow, capable of piercing the increasingly better metallic armor of the knights. The solutions went through the compound bow and the longbow but the technical difficulties of building them and the ten or fifteen years required to train a competent archer for the second.
The introduction of the crossbow in medieval Europe was based on the need to create some kind of mechanism that would allow them to use that weapon with the greatest range at that time (the bow) to launch their projectiles (arrows) at that known distance or even greater. but with less effort and skill. With the crossbow, good ranges were already achieved (150 effective meters, but without much precision) and the diversity of projectiles that could be used was quite numerous (short, medium, long, metal, wooden, with a wooden tip, metal, etc.). with feathers, without feathers, in the form of balls and even stones.
Its power and easy handling made it spread throughout Europe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. the crossbow was normally used by mercenaries.
