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This fascinating book tells the story of the huge impact of gunpowder |
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* Known as ‘fire-drug’, its origin was the alchemists’ search for an immortality elixir * GUNPOWDER was initially a medicine not an explosive * For 400 years, the Chinese kept GUNPOWDER to themselves, until a Mongol soldier leaked the secret to the Islamic world |
The Chinese went on to develop every type of weapon that ever used GUNPOWDER - incendiaries, bombs, rockets, cannons, mines and guns - as well as fireworks * Both the Ottoman and the Moghul empires were built on GUNPOWDER * GUNPOWDER destroyed the last vestiges of feudalism in Europe and changed the balance of power in the medieval world * GUNPOWDER helped Europeans destroy the Aztec and Inca empires |
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