What was the purpose of gunpowder?
The exact reason of the invention of gunpowder is unkown
although many answers are out there (similar to different inventing
countys like S. Korea, or the ottoman empire). what the Chinese did
was tie a cylinder-like shape filled with gunpowder and it was
renforced on all but one end wich was coverd with bezwax so to keep
powder in...inyways these were attached to arrows that would be put
on a cart and launched into the air this would repeal mongolian
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