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WiM001 - The Saylor Series | Episode 1 | The Rise of Man through The Stone and Iron Ages

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The Sling Shot

A thousand years before rome, they had slingers. The natives of the baleric islands were raised from age three to operate a sling. They weren't slinging little light stones or the shit that you pick up on the seashore. They were actually forming lead bullets. People invented bullets thousands of years before guns. Guns were just the latest idea of putting bullets together with gunpowder. If your life depended upon it, you would figure out how to do it.

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