They were equipped with javelins, argive shields , and cavalry sword . Sometimes they wore linen/leather armour and bronze helmets .

他们装备了标枪，希腊盾和骑兵剑，有时他们穿皮甲和戴青铜头盔。

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Poorly trained, but well equipped cavalry who fight with a sword.

商队骑马民兵以长剑作战，他们装备精良，但训练较差。

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On that day the musketry and artillery of Selim the Grim, the Ottoman sultan, blasted to shreds the sword-wielding cavalry of Egypt's 250-year-old Mamluk sultanate, opening the way to 400 years of Ottoman Turkish rule over all but the peripheries of the Arab world.

ECONOMIST: The history of the Arabic-speaking peoples