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gigantes 10 year s ago
#1, #2 quite ingenious to make a lethally sharp sword out of wood and stone. of course it would be much more fragile than steel.
       
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Mr. Ree 10 year s ago
...and every one of them was made obsolete with the invention of gunpowder.

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gigantes 10 year s ago
actually some of these, like #7, were used even 1000+ years after the invention of gunpowder. even in the very place that gunpowder was invented.
       
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jfzavalav 10 year s ago
random fact...The first two were made just to hurt...not to kill. thats because the aztecs needs a lot of war prisioners to sacrifice them.
       
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The Macuahuitl (Maquahuitl) was a wooden sword-like weapon used primarily by the Aztecs. It was generally 3-4 feet in length and had grooves along its edges lined with sharpened pieces of obsidian. It was noted by Spanish settlers to be a very well-constructed weapon, with the obsidian almost impossible to pull free from the wood, and strong and sharp enough to decapitate a man. The last known authentic specimen was destroyed in a fire in 1884 along with the last...

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