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Who First Used Gunpowder As A Weapon?

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Who First Used Gunpowder As A Weapon? The Mongols were the first to be subject to flying fire — an arrow fixed with a tube of gunpowder that ignited and would propel itself across enemy lines. More gunpowder-based weapons were invented by the Chinese and perfected against the Mongols in the next centuries, including the

How Did Europe Benefit From Gunpowder?

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How Did Europe Benefit From Gunpowder? The cannons, flamethrowers, and grenades that they used in battle were quickly adopted by European forces for battles on land and at sea. However, Europeans refined the applications of gunpowder and improved the devices that used gunpowder, producing weapons that dramatically transformed the nature of warfare. How did gunpowder