why was the gunpowder so important to oliver cromwell
A cause of the Gun-powder plot is that Catholics in England had expected James to be more tolerant of them. In fact, he had proved to be the opposite and had ordered all Catholic priests to leave England. This so angered some Catholics that they decided to kill James and put his daughter Elizabeth on the throne ensuring that she was a Catholic. This led to a plot to kill not only the king of England, James, but also everyone sitting in the Houses of Parliament at the same time as James was there when he opened Parliament on November 5th, 1605.
A container used to store and measure gunpowder. It was used in muskets and became obsolete when the cartridge was invented. A powder horn was used to carry the gun powder before the invention of ready made cartridges or shells with the gun powder in the casing and the lead bullet wedged into the open end of the cartridge or casing. At the opposite end was the point where the firing pin had to strike in order to cause the powder to explode, creating enough energy to cause the bullet to travel through the barrel of the gun at tremendous velocity.
Not likely. The Viking Era ended about 1050 AD. The first cannon used in battle was about 1260 AD. So the last Viking would have been over 200 years early for gunpowder.
That sounds like a local version of a cliche that is used to say something is cheap. There are several different forms of this such as: "It's not worth its weight in salt.". Salt is cheap so that would not be worth much unless it was a heavy item. This is just a version that says it is so cheap that you could blow it up but then that would cost more in gun powder than what you are blowing up.
General shock, sympathy to James I and popular support for commemorations of the plot such as sermons and November 5th
so they could have fun
* Because the King found out about it * King James I caught Guy Fawkes in the act * The gun powder had gone off and so it couldn't be lit and therefore the houses of parliament wouldn't be able to be blown up
Because when it is hit with the heat it explodes and the explosion/hot air pushes the bullet forward!
The plot is what happens in the story.
The powder horn is where the powder of the gun is so if you want to shot you need the powder
"firework powder" is usually gun powder or blackpowder... So yes both of these options can be used in cannons, but don't mix blackpowder with gun powder since they burn at different rates.
No. In general you should never use smokeless powder in a firearm designed specifically for black powder. To do so may be very dangerous. If in doubt, have the gun inspected by a qualified gunsmith and only fire smokeless powder in the gun if a properly qualified gunsmith tells you it is safe to do so.
Troops from the King were coming and they thought that the King sent them to punish them so they invaded the Bastille to look for gun powder to defend themselves.
It's just decoration, on real guns the hammer is used for the powder to explode but airsoft BB's don't have any powder so the hammer is for making the gun more realistic.
100-500 or so
So you can fire a gun.
Yes you can buy powder to reload ammo , what type and brand of powder will depend on the cartridge to be loaded , it's not a one size fits all type of thing .