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Battle-axe

A battle-axe is an axe specifically designed as a weapon. Such axes have been in use since at least the 3rd millennium BC, see Battle-axe people.

Renaissance historians (e.g. Johannes Aventinus) credited the Amazons with the invention of the battle-axe.

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