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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because it was around long before cannons.

[–] finitebanjo 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Behold my comment, unedited, with the correct number of n's and shirk away in your ill natured unsophistry.

[–] chaogomu 13 points 2 months ago

Part of it was also the lack of canon. The ancient world didn't have "one true version" of anything, it had the version at hand. Which was usually the version that the current (local) king wanted.