Gunpowder | By Pranav Kodali | | | Pranav Kodali Professor Karen Manchester History Period 3 18 May 2012 Gunpowder’s Explosive Past How did a black powder discovered one millennium ago affect how the first Apollo escaped orbit? Gunpowder influences our everyday life‚ whether you know it or not. In this report‚ I will be talking about the origin of gunpowder‚ the use of gunpowder‚ and the influence of gunpowder on previous battles. Most people think of gunpowder as a ruthless
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created by the Chinese during the tang dynasty. This particular dynasty was active in the 18th century. Gunpowder contains 3 important ingredients: sulfur‚ saltpeter‚ and charcoal. Ironically today we use gunpowder to kill but before used in weapons the Chinese thought it could cure skin diseases. Soon after gunpowder’s total potential was discover. The Chinese then invented the cannon. Three major empires saw the power of these cannon and began to create and experiment with this new technology. As known
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Nobles and the military leaders of the era were also at odds with the new gunpowder weaponry. As gunpowder weaponry continued to develop it eventually progressed to the point of being very effective‚ and nobles‚ the knightly class‚ began to recognize that firearms represented a threat to their dominance. Unlike traditional medieval warfare which respected social status‚ “...gunpowder weapons had no such respect for class‚ and nobles risked death as much from gunshot as did non-noble soldiers”. Nobles
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chinese invention ever made was gunpowder.” Gunpowder Taiwanese-secrets.com Gunpowder is one of the greatest and most powerful inventions the Chinese people created. The chinese created a formula which was made of Saltpeter‚ Charcoal‚ and Sulfur during the Tang dynasty possibly around the year A.D. 850. The Chinese were trying to make a formula that would make you live forever but instead it shortens your life by killing you. The first use that the Chinese had for gunpowder was to make fireworks. The
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der Empire ComparisonThe Ottoman Empire and Mughal Empire both being “Gunpowder Empires” faced similar issues. Both empires faced inadequate transportation and communication systems‚ both faced poor bureaucracies‚ and competing with rival empires. The first problem was inadequate transportation and communication systems. Although they had the necessary military technology to control their empires‚ transporting it to where it was needed was another issue. The larger they grew‚ the more difficult
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stone tools were the only thing available. The solution to this problem came in the late 1800s with the invention of dynamite. Gunpowder is considered the first explosive to be discovered. It was first discovered many years ago in China and India. Early uses of gunpowder were primarily for military use but didn’t see wide spread until the 16th century. Due to gunpowder being a low explosive it was not used for much mining related activities. Nitroglycerin was the first industrial explosive. It
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The current field of research into the cause of the downfall of the knightly class generally agrees that it was primarily a result of the introduction of gunpowder weaponry‚ but some recent scholarship suggests otherwise. Up through the present‚ historians have believed that the gunpowder revolution in military technology predominantly caused the knightly class in Europe to disappear. Unlike previous ranged weapons developments‚ firearms took no skill to operate and had the power to punch through
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How influential was gunpowder in ancient china ? Gunpowder is the first explosive the world had ever seen and also one of the four great inventions of ancient China. When this was in the hands of strategists‚ the gunpowder was turned into black powder used in war. The military uses of gunpowder began at the end of the Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty‚ the government set up gunpowder workshops‚ where flammable or explosive weapons like a fire cannon‚ rocket and missiles etc. were produced in different
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Introduction The gunpowder plot happened in 1605 ‚ in London.The people involved were Guy Fawks ‚ Robert and Thomas Wintour‚ Thomas Percy‚ Christopher and John Wright‚ Francis Tresham‚ Everard Digby‚ Ambrose Rookwood‚ Thomas Bates‚ Robert Keyes‚ Hugh Owen‚ John Grant and the man who is said to have organised the whole plot Robert Catesby. The other people involved in the plot were Robert Cecil and mounteagle. Some Catholics decided to come up with the plot ‚ to blow up parliament. There aim
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Brown‚ Aalia 4B Eng/Lang arts 12 Mrs. Landrum-May February 26‚ 2013 The Gunpowder Plot was a failed attempt to kill King James I. the plot was to blow up the house of the lords during the State Opening of England’s Parliament. The plan also included the king’s 9 year old daughter whom was supposed to be awarded as the Catholic head of state. This may have occurred after the hopes of greater religious tolerance was defeated‚ which left many English Catholics disappointed. They had few but strong
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