should I do an article compare/contrast-ing merovingian/carolingian francia with the ideal of ancapistan
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The crossbow did it first. The gun was effectively a better crossbow, but the crossbow itself already enabled a woman or child to kill without having years of training or strength of arms. Hence the fulmination against them, the arguments they were unchristian, etc.
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I would argue that the crossbow, and later the gun, made numbers important. Prior to that, truly disproportionate numbers of untrained peasants were needed to win against a knight. Now we have tech like drones and ICBMs that do not depend on raw numbers of trigger fingers.
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As a side note, social hierarchy is far more intuitive if the man giving out orders is worth 40-50 peasants in a fight. It's easy to believe he really is the best of humanity and has a divinely given right to lead. Less so if he's just another dude with a rifle.
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