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Chinese crossbows had draw-weights ranging from 68 to 340 kg (150 to 750 lb). [10] [95]...the Chinese made much more extensive use of the crossbow as an infantry weapon than the Byzantines did, and the Chinese crossbow was a more sophisticated device than its Western counterpart.
The Austroasiatic crossbow is known as sna in Khmer, chrao in Brao [1] hneev in Hmong, [2] or hraŏ in Jarai. [3] [4]It is one of the few Austroasiatic loanwords found in Sino-Tibetan languages as linguists have found it to be related the Chinese crossbow known as nu (弩) : "the Southern origin of this term is indisputable but the origin of the term is uncertain".
The repeating crossbow (Chinese: 連弩; pinyin: Lián Nǔ), also known as the repeater crossbow, and the Zhuge crossbow (Chinese: 諸葛弩; pinyin: Zhūgě nǔ, also romanized Chu-ko-nu) due to its association with the Three Kingdoms-era strategist Zhuge Liang (181–234 AD), is a crossbow invented during the Warring States period in China that combined the bow spanning, bolt placing, and ...
When the Chams sacked Angkor they used the Chinese siege crossbow. [40] [41] The Chinese taught the Chams how to use crossbows and mounted archery Crossbows and archery in 1171. [42] The Khmer also had double-bow crossbows mounted on elephants, which Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'h suggests were elements of Cham mercenaries in Jayavarman VII's army. [43]
For infantry, the preferred projectile weapon was the crossbow, because shooting one required less training than shooting a bow. As early as 600 BC, [11] Chinese crossbows employed sophisticated bronze trigger mechanisms, which allowed for very high draw weights. [12]
Chinese crossbow: 170–450 m (560–1,480 ft) ... (2003), History of Civilizations of Central Asia: Development in Contrast: from the Sixteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth ...
The recorded military history of China extends from about 2200 BC to the present day. Chinese pioneered the use of crossbows, advanced metallurgical standardization for arms and armor, early gunpowder weapons, and other advanced weapons, but also adopted nomadic cavalry [1] and Western military technology. [2]
Crossbow and repeating crossbow: According to British art historian Matthew Landruss and Gerald Hurley, Chinese crossbows may have been invented as far back as 2000 BC; [149] [150] Anne McCants, an American historian at the Massachusetts institute of Technology, speculates that they existed about 1200 BC. [151]