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The term mangonel is ambiguous, with different meanings depending on when and where it was used. (French Mangonneau and Arabic al-manjaniq refer to types of trebuchet, while the Romans used the term to describe an engine which is also called an onager.)

The Roman mangonel was a combination of the torsion bundle used in a ballista with a staff sling, a sling on the end of a staff. It was a more-efficient stone thrower than a ballista due to its use of the sling and was less complex and easier to build, so it superseded the ballista for that purpose, though the ballista continued to be used as an arrow-thrower. Though the mangonel could throw farther than the later trebuchet it could not handle stones nearly as heavy, so it wan't effective against strong fortifications.

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