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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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Musket
The Protestant Reformation won despite Catholic Europe's greater population and wealth because printing press, musket, and banknotes empowered literate believers, common soldiers, and abstract wealth.
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Volley fire solves the musket's inaccuracy and slowness by organizing massed soldiers to fire in sequence rather than relying on individual aim.
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The Protestant Reformation won despite Catholic Europe's greater population and wealth because printing press, musket, and banknotes empowered literate believers, common soldiers, and abstract wealth.
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The musket undermined knightly aristocracy because a devoted common person could learn to pierce armor in roughly 60 days.
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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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"...and arrow, okay? The other thing about the arquebus and the musket is, it's very, very slow, right? You have to aim it, then..."
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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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"And the individual struggle to come to terms with what God means to you individually, okay? And the Vikings believed in resourcefulness, right? Which..."
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"...That's the first reason, the printing press. Second reason is the musket. This is really important. Before, the main weapon, the ultimate weapon was..."
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"...be a knight. But now, eventually, you have the gun, the musket. Okay? And it takes about 60 days for anyone to learn how..."
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"to trade goods. Not only... You can use bank notes, which is just money. Okay? And you can now monetize your hard work and..."
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"...out because there's more of them, and also because they have muskets, and the local people do not have muskets. Okay? So, as you..."
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"...people at, a projectile. And that's why we have cannons and muskets. And so it was the Europeans who actually invented gunpowder as a..."
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"...This is what a printing press looks like. You have the musket, okay? So before, people had, you know, bows, right? And the bows..."
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"...you will have things like the cannon. And also, eventually, the musket. The musket is just an individual gun. And this marks a revolution,..."
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Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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