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=__//** Impacts of gunpowder during the Renaissance **//__=

==== The Renaissance was an time era of "rebirth" for Europe. People had stop worrying about religion after the Black Death and decided to learn new ideas such as art and science. Their were many famous people and inventions during this time period. One of the most significant inventions was gunpowder. Gunpowder had changed Europe and warfare by changing soldiers, battle formations, development of new weapons and leading some countries with advantages in warfare. ====

==== Gunpowder was a significant but dangerous invention that was [|created by the Chinese due to their knowledge of mixing the chemicals in the powder.]This invention had lead some countries with advantages in times of war; such as [|the Muslims armies using explosives against the sixth crusade army in the 13th century]. Additionally, the Spanish, Ottoman empire, Japanese, and Portugal acquiring firearms. In addition, the the nations had created many types of gunpowder out of the original black powder; [|such as smoke screen, poison, violent, and blinding.] ====

====== ====No one really knew how gunpowder got to[| Europe but some think gunpowder made its way along the Silk road through the Middle east, others thought it was brought to Europe during the Mongol invasion in the first half of the 13th century, and other people thought it was during the subsequent diplomatic and military contracts] With guns in the picture [|many soldiers did not need to train for so many years as they needed to for swords and bow and arrows. Armies used cannon sieges which is when a army position cannons on hills. They aimed at castle walls which allowed foot soldiers to enter. This was very effective against castles and usually the assaults were successful in a matter of weeks or even days.]====

====[|Gunpowder was once used to treat skin diseases and as a fumigant to kill insects. Later, the Chinese began to experiment with gunpowder filled tubes; by taking bamboo and attaching them on arrows and lauching them with bows. After that, they discovered that the gunpowder tubes could lauch by themselves if they could add more power produced from the escaping gas.] This dicovery had [|lead to the development of the cannon.]====

====[|In order for every kingdom in Europe to compete with other armies, each kingdom was equipped with artillery divisions. Additionally, in order for the kingdoms to have enough amount of gunpowder for the whole army, they built these factories called "powderworks", these factories had grind and mix gunpowder in a much quicker rate. During the 1400-1600, their were advancements in metallurgy which allowed the creation of more advanced cannons and smaller gunpowder weapons such as muskets.]====

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