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Re:“Devil’s horsemen”: Why Mongol horse archers were history... by Terr_ on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @03:03AM (#36858928)
If you mean with same-era technology, the answer is they

Europeans did not bring horses to America until after the Mongol empire had already collapsed, so the people there (whether called Comanches, Shoshone, etc.) couldn't even have any horseback archers. :P

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Re:“Devil’s horsemen”: Why Mongol horse archers were history... by Terr_ on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @02:50PM (#36867475)
... I have no idea how that first sentence got cut off while editing. I was quite sure it was correct the last time I hit "update."

"would have fared Very Badly (or perhaps Not Applicable.)"

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