Mongol Archery

The Mongols were famed for their horse-archery, much like the Scythians. This seems to have been a trend in the mountainous regions, with the Mongolian and Russian steppes feilding excellent horse archers. The picture opposite shows the famous monoglian mounted archers dating from the time of the mongol conquest.

The archers had a devastating effect across asia and parts of eastern europe, the picture below shows the Mongol Empire at it's height, none of which would have been possible without the Mongol archers.

The Mongol bow was heavily recurved and much smaller than most other bows of the time, giving it a heavy drawstrength and long range, it's size made it perfectly suited to mounted archery.

Native American Archery

Native American Archery is very different from it's European and Asian countrparts. The Natice American bows differ from tribbe to tribe, but one popular style was a type of bow rarely seen in Europe or Asia, the Flatbow.

It is, surprisingly, flat. It is also known as the american longbow, but differs from the traditional longbow because the traditional longbow has round limbs. The flatbow was widely use dby the native amreicans and is still used to this day in America in some particular competitions.