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If you mean soldiers in full plate armor, the gun was probably the most important invention in making them obsolete. Their armor worked pretty well against arrows but not bullets.
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The above is certainly conventional understanding and taught in many schools. But actually, the fully armored knight was already obsolescent when the guns appeared on the field. The massed English archers of the Battles of Crecy and Agincourt destroyed formations of charging knights at long range with little damage to the English themselves. So the invention of massed archers with English longbows is one that has to be considered.

The only advantage in using musketeers of the time instead of archers with longbows was that the musketeers could be trained in a week, but training archers was a process that took years. Many kings did not want to have large numbers of archers, because they represented a threat to the king in times of peasant unrest.

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