• @Drivebyhaiku
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      310 months ago

      More or less the same. Sharp or heavy objects were popular. But saying “the attack commences at three o’clock” wasn’t a thing. The idea of a second is about 1000 years old and we couldn’t measure them at all accurately until about 500 years ago.

      The very loud noise was the standard of military co-ordination for most of human history.