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Elizabethan times were full of bizarre and unusual things, and these are some interesting facts about Elizabethan time weapons.
 * Later in the end of the Medieval era in 1520, the Elizabethan time period, their military began to advance into the use of muskets.
 * By 1595, bows were ordered to change to the muskets.
 * During this time England was one of the worlds' greatest super powers in military.
 *  A groove down the rapiers' blade is designed to help lighten the blade but it is occasionally was wrongly called the " blood gutter"
 * The blade of a rapier and the hilt were often made by completely different craftsmen!
 * A pike was a long spear that was about 18 to 20 feet long.
 * Billhook was a weapon that made it possible to kill both the knight and the horse at once.
 * Longbow could shoot and pierce through the armor from 250 yards away, and it could shoot 10 to 12 arrows per minute.
 * New developed canons in the Medieval era were heavy artillery such as ballista, trebuchet, and the Mangonel, and these canons were made of bronze, fired stone, or iron. They were all in different sizes, and could be used on both land and sea.
 * There were over 15 different types of weapons you could carry on foot alone at this time.

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