As global superpowers would soon find out, in order to control the lucrative trading routes of the open seas, ships needed to be equipped with superior cannon power.
The invention of gunpowder altered the strength and potential of military powers throughout the world. The picture encyclopedia storyboards have easily digestible information with a visual to stimulate understanding and retention. Storyboard That is passionate about student agency, and we want everyone to be storytellers. Storyboards provide an excellent medium to showcase what students have learned, and to teach to others. Each version of Storyboard That has a different privacy and security model that is tailored for the expected usage.
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No one else can view anything. Modern gunpowder is made from a different chemical composition than the gunpowder invented by the Chinese and is generally known as smokeless powder. Smokeless powder is the propellant that has been used in almost all modern bullets since the late 19th century. The bullets fired with modern gunpowder have assassinated world leaders and waged war. They have enabled people to hunt, defend themselves and attack others, and remain a significant but controversial agent for change in society.
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The Mongols were the first to be subject to flying fire — an arrow fixed with a tube of gunpowder that ignited and would propel itself across enemy lines. More gunpowder-based weapons were invented by the Chinese and perfected against the Mongols in the next centuries, including the first cannons and grenades.
The psychological effect alone of the mystifying new technology likely helped the Chinese win battles against the Mongols, historians believe. Gunpowder somehow remained a monopoly of the Chinese until the 13th century, when the science was passed along the ancient silk trade route to Europe and the Islamic world, where it became a deciding factor in many Middle Age skirmishes.
By , rudimentary gunpowder cannons were commonplace in the English and French militaries, which used the technology against each other during the Hundred Years' War.
The Ottoman Turks also employed gunpowder cannons with abandon during their successful siege of Constantinople in The powerful new weapon essentially rendered the traditional walled fortification of Europe, impregnable for centuries, weak and defenseless.
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