• TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 day ago

    Til this post I didn’t know people 1500 years ago would have thought about suits and helmets…I’m not saying that they wouldnt have, I’m just wondering what the history is.

    • RION [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      Well people definitely did, the Romans for instance. Apparently mesoamericans had cloth body armor similar to European gambesons as well as some leather stuff, but nothing metal