THE MIDDLE STONE AGE 
The use of the bow and arrow resulted in a vast exten- 
sion of man’s power over his environment. He could now 
bring down his game or his enemy at much greater dis- 
tances and with far more precision than ever before. The 
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Fic. 66. Negrito using bow and arrow, Philippine Islands. 
After Frobenius 
crude new weapon was one susceptible of vast improve- 
ment in many ways. As the long bow, the weapon of the 
English yeomanry during the later Middle Ages, it proved 
scarcely less effective than gunpowder in bringing low the 
pretensions of the haughty feudal aristocracy. As the 
compound bow, the terribly efficient weapon of the hordes 
of central Asiatic light-horsemen, who for two thousand 
years threatened civilization in almost every part of the 
Old World, it has wielded power no less great and decisive. 
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