The matchlock improved the accuracy of handguns with a simple add-on. By attaching the burning end of the match to a trigger operated hook. The soldier could use the trigger to move the match inti contact with the touchole. Then, by holding the gun with both hands the aiming was vastly improved. It reamined slow work but as only one shot could be taken before another re-load, it was well that the aim on the first shot was true.
It was in the fifteenth century.
In the early part of the fourteenth century one advantage of the early firearms were there cost. A simple matchlock cost far less than a crossbow.
Fifteenth century.
15th
The word century is a common noun. The word fifteenth is functioning as an adjective (not a noun) decribing the noun century.
That would be the fifteenth century.
Portuguese traders accounted for 95% of the slave trade in the fifteenth century.
The Matchlock Gun was written by Walter Edmonds. It won the Newbery in 1942.
the fifteenth century was also a time of economic, political, and intellectual recovery as the renaissance introduced....
1401-1500
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The fifteenth. (1485)