Cory
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« on: September 04, 2015, 05:43:39 PM » |
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I would say the gun itself.
Let me put it this way: It's objectively easier for a random person to learn how to use a gun effectively then to sword-fight effectively. This created a dynamic where any peasant could kill a trained and experienced knight with relative ease. This in turn created the need for vast conscript armies in which the elite troops weren't that much better then the recruits.
You can see how this leads into other political changes as the governments become more dependent on the will of the average citizen to fight the war.
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