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Projectile

China invented gunpowder, but Jiang says Europe transformed it into projectile warfare and then the technology returned to China in adapted form.

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China invented gunpowder, but Jiang says Europe transformed it into projectile warfare and then the technology returned to China in adapted form.

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Turn Society Into The Cannon

2025-04-10, day precision · Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution

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"...into a propellant, okay? Something that you shoot people at, a projectile. And that's why we have cannons and muskets. And so it was..."

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