Dr. James Fitzsimmons
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I, you know, I generally do it at long range with these guys.
So I, so they don't actually like hit me.
And, uh, what's fun about them is that you can get really good, fairly, fairly fast.
It doesn't take that long to, to get good.
Well, the Aztecs had the bow and arrow.
And the bow and arrow, almost everywhere else in the world, when you get a bow and arrow, the at-level dies.
People are like, what is this?
I can use a bow and arrow.
But the Aztecs don't use it for that.
So the way they do it is they'll throw it.
They might carry a stack of them.
They have a club or something too, right?
So they'll throw a stack of them.
And they'll throw it at a crowd.
And if you throw a dart at a crowd, and I always joke like this with my students, you know, if you throw a dart at a crowd, I don't throw it at them hard, but I kind of throw it at the ground, right?
They'll divide up, right?
And then you do it again and you do it again and you do it again, right?
So it's like you're picking off a herd.
It's like you're hunting.
And that's what they're doing.