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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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Arquebus
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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..."
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"It was hard to store. It was hard to make. And the guns that you used were too heavy. So they were only a..."
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"...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..."
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"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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Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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