Since America is bringing back kings what other kind of stuff is on your medieval wishlist?
Since America is bringing back kings what other kind of stuff is on your medieval wishlist?
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Guillotines.
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That wasn't really a thing in medieval times. I'm afraid an axe will have to do.
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Trebuchet?
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Of course! It's the superior siege engine.
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Imagine using this for execution
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Especially when you could hold a vote, letting the people decide the method. One option: yeet the person from the trebuchet. The second: yeet something at them from a trebuchet!
Bring outchyo
deadvote!!-
Yeet a person at this person from a trebuchet!
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First used in ancient China around IV century BC.
We can get tripantium though, advanced evolution of it invented in XIII century France.
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It was an instrument used by the burghers in bringing about the end of European feudal lordship, replacing the feudal mode of production with the capitalist one.
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It's okay, we're getting rid of history lessons too!
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This might fit in mediaeval times, with the earliest possible recorded use in the 13th century, but it's certainly not well-known until the early modern period and most famous right on the border between early and late modern.
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And the billionaires will be the first to try it out!
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It goes Yah
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Sic semper tyrranis
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y'all qaeda had those on Jan6. They can have 'em.
Samurai sword. But, probably they all have those as well.
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