Crossbow

A drawing of an archer firing a crossbow

The crossbow is an invention in which the stock, a piece of wood is mounted on two other crossing pieces. Crossbows do not fire arrows, they fire bolts which are similar to arrows. The crossbows have good and bad sides to them. They fire much stronger and much more acurately but take a significant amount more time to load and do not have as good of range. The crossbow was first created by the Chinese people in circa 6 B.C. Unlike common belief, crossbows were much more involved then pulling a trigger. The loading process was very difficult in which an arrow would be nocked against a flat piece of wood and being intertwined with a thin piece of string