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.

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The developed world evolved from monarchies and authoritarian rule actual democracies over the last 250 years, some only in the last century.

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Some of the specialty arrows could also be considered over-the-top in a world where physical laws, however futuristic in their application, still rule.

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