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The.invention if gunpowder was introduced to the English?
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.
What were the gunpowder aiming to achieve?
The Chinese invented it for fireworks and to use in war. The Europeans made weapons to use it.
Europeans explorers first used gunpowder to take enslaved captives where?
European explorers began to use gunpowder in order to take slaves captive. This was first done on the continent of Africa.
Did the mongol armies incorporated the technological capability to make use of gunpowder and cannons?
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
Were the Chinese first to use rockets?
yes
How does the firework relate to china?
The Chinese invented gunpowder, and fireworks was their first use for gunpowder. The Chinese have been connected with the idea of fireworks ever since.
What was invented by the Chinese first for use in fireworks but was later adapted for use in weapons?
Gunpowder.
When was the first firework show?
Chinese people use GUNPOWDER as fire works
What did the Chinese use gunpowder for?
They used gunpowder for fireworks and weapons.
The Mongols were the first to use gunpowder to?
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.
What were three inventions from the iron ages?
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.
Was gunpowder the first known chemical explosive to china?
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.
Which country was the first to use black powder as a weapon?
Probably China. They were the first to use gunpowder, invented around the 1100's Jin Dynasty.
Who invented the very first rockets?
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.
How long has gunpowder been in use?
Gunpowder was invented by the Ancient Chinese. Gunpowder came to Europe in the 1260s.
What was the name of the first gun?
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.
What types of weapons did the Chinese use?
gunpowder
