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Interestingly enough, the English longbow was a fairly late adoption!
Previous self-bows did not have the range or penetrative power of the English longbow, and even in England itself, the crossbow was more common until the mid-14th century AD. The longbow, thus, was introduced as an 'upgrade' of sorts to the well-established crossbow!