What group of people were the most skilled archers in the history of the world?

Answer 1

~The ones who could put the most arrows into a target closest to the bullseye in the least amount of time. Duh.


Since you can't compare one era to another without making allowances for the weaponry used and tactics employed, for effectiveness against superior numbers and weapons, I'd go with the Sioux, particularly the Lakota.

Answer 2

Persian archers were excellent archers and Japanese soldiers were skilled in archery even if the carried swords,during Ancient Persia and the mid 1500s these two groups were the most intense archers in the world.

Answer 3

It is of course difficult to deterime which individual type of archer was the most effective but as a group the Mongrel horse archer was certainly the most devestating.

Begining in the steepes west of China the Mogrel Horde moved west and destroyed everything in there path.

Answer 4

Skilled?

I think the Mongol horse archers and the English longbowmen.

Answer 5

The Amazons - an group of women who had a breast removed for the purpose of better using the bow. Pax - C

Answer 6

The English with the wooden longbow, the Mongols and Turks with the composite horn-wood-sinew bow, the Japanese with the laminated wood bow, and the Assyrians and Egyptians with bow and chariot.

Answer 7

Hunters from West Virgina with a compound bow!

Answer 8

obviously the Maccabees because their accuracy was uncanny due to their innovated design of the arrowheads in the form of jewish stars which made for superior penetration of armour and flesh

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