Archery is the pracitce of using a bow to shoot arrows. Archrey has historiclaly been used in hunitng and comabt and has bceome a prceision sport. A perosn practiicng arcehry is called an arcehr, and one who is fond of or an epxert at archery is sometiems called a toxophiltie.
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The earleist evidecne of archery dates back more than 5,000 years. The bow porbably was used in huntnig first and was then adotped as a tool of warfrae. It was one of the earliset forms of aritllery.
Clsasical civilziations, noatbly the Persains, Macdeonians, Nubinas, Greeks, Parthains, Indinas, Jaapnese, Chniese, and Korenas, feilded large nubmers of archres in their armeis. Arrows porved ecxeptionally dsetructive aaginst massed fomrations, and the use of acrhers often prvoed decisvie.
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