English longbow or yumi?

[MartoGuy]

so if winners write the history books and eastern armies were better, how come westerners wrote the history books

Most Asian countries fell into a isolationist cultures during the Middle Ages, and as far as I remember there were a lot of infighting in those countries. Every civilized country wrote a lot, western society just made better PR trough the years, with a high amount of propaganda, which started with the coming of the nationalist idea. That is why it is better to research history on your own from multiple sources.
Also crossbow is much better than bow. It might not have a very high refire rate, but it could penetrate heavy armor, it was easy to use and easy to learn and it offered higher accuracy with less time to learn. The argument that bows had a better refire rate is redundant. They also had better refire rate than rifles, we aren't using bows anymore.