Was the Sling Useless? #shorts #history

A strip of leather and a bag of rocks. It sounds like the worst weapon on the battlefield, until it outranges the archers. In 401 BC, ten thousand Greek soldiers were retreating through the Persian Empire under constant arrow fire. Xenophon, who was there, wrote that slingers from Rhodes using lead bullets threw farther than the Persian slingers, and farther even than the Persian bowmen. After that, the enemy could no longer harass the column from a safe distance. Bow or sling: which would you pick? Animated history for educational purposes. Source: Xenophon, Anabasis, Book 3. #shorts #history #sling #ancientgreece #ancienthistory #militaryhistory #persia #xenophon #weapons #historyfacts #animation