Classic warfare one side makes a better weapon the other makes a counter to that weapon and then a better weapon comes along.You have bullets and you have armor and no weapon or defense is perfect there is always some trade off it seems.
Sometimes I sit and wonder the first tribe that had atlatls they must have really dominated early warfare and think what the first tribe that invited the bow and arrow even better.Some theorize that at some point in time Cro Magnons and Neanderthals surely entered conflict over resources and that the Neanderthals lost out because they where a little slower in developing technology that Cro Magnons already had developed they lacked any projectile weapons and that made hunting much more dangerous to them because they had to get close enough to the prey that it could injure them while Cro Magnons just popped the prey with some atlatl arrows and let it bleed out Cro Magnon superior hunting gear also meant superior weaponry.Those poor Neanderthals.
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