Early gunpowder was not immediately revolutionary because it was unstable, hard to store, hard to make, and paired with heavy, inaccurate, slow guns.
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Early gunpowder was not immediately revolutionary because it was unstable, hard to store, hard to make, and paired with heavy, inaccurate, slow guns.
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"The concept we use for this in our class is open cooperative competition. This is the main driver of innovation in the world. When..."
"It was hard to store. It was hard to make. And the guns that you used were too heavy. So they were only a..."
"...villages. The thing, to remember about the early guns called the arquebus, is that they're very heavy. Now, these are metal, okay? So the..."
"So you have two issues with the guns, the musket, the arquebus. One is that it's not very accurate, and second of all, it's..."
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