Gunpowder is the first explosive substance mankind learned to use and was one of the four great inventions of ancient China. The Chinese used gunpowder as early as 800-1000 AD, for fireworks and later for weapons. It was not in widespread use in Europe until around the 1300s. Gunpowder reached Europe through the Silk Road trade.
The Chinese invented it for fireworks and to use in war. The Europeans made weapons to use it.
European explorers began to use gunpowder in order to take slaves captive. This was first done on the continent of Africa.
Yes. The Mongols were defeated by the Mamluk use of hand cannons in 1260, and by 1282, Mongols had cannons of their own in Manchuria. First use of cannons was by the Chinese back in 1128. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cannon
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The Chinese invented gunpowder, and fireworks was their first use for gunpowder. The Chinese have been connected with the idea of fireworks ever since.
Gunpowder.
Chinese people use GUNPOWDER as fire works
They used gunpowder for fireworks and weapons.
No, the Chinese used gunpowder before the Mongols did. So did the Jurchens, who conquered northern China in the early 1100s. The Mongols undoubtedly acquired knowledge of gunpowder weapons from the Jurchens and the Chinese.
Gunpowder, Invented by the Chinese Stirrups, also invented by the Chinese. and used for horse-riders to use swords and spears. catapult, the first artillery weapon invented by the Greek.
Gunpowder was first invented in China no later than about A.D. 850. For hundreds of years, it was used mainly to create fireworks. The Chinese did not use gunpowder as a weapon of war; it was the Europeans who first adapted explosives for use in weapons. By the fourteenth century, Europeans were widely using the explosive as a military device to project stones, spearlike projectiles, and metal balls from cannons and guns.
Probably China. They were the first to use gunpowder, invented around the 1100's Jin Dynasty.
The Chinese invented gunpowder and used it to power rockets hundreds of years ago. Then Marco Polo, from Europe, visited China, and told his fellow Europeans about the Chinese, their use of gunpowder and rockets. Then Europeans further developed gunpowder and rockets.The Chinese.
1232: The Chinese who invented gunpowder (black powder) first used it in a weapon-gunpowder filled tubes aka rockets. 1364: First recorded use of a firearm-shooter lit wicks by hand that ingnited gunpowder that was loaded into the gun barrel. 1400s: Matchlock guns-first mechanically firing of guns.
Gunpowder was invented by the Ancient Chinese. Gunpowder came to Europe in the 1260s.
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