Main Idea Quiz 2

The bow is the oldest projectile throwing weapon still in use. For perhaps 30,000 years its form has changed little: it is still a bent stick and string; however, improvements in materials and construction have extended the bow's range dramatically. When English archers were the terror of Europe, their legendary longbow could send an arrow about 280 yards. The Turkish bow of the seventeenth century could achieve 600 to 800 yards. Today? The world record, which has for more than fifteen years, is one mile, 268 yards, which is about two kilometers.

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