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=__// The impact of gunpowder during the Renaissance //__ Annual project website=

The Renaissance was an time period of "rebirth" for Europe and many ideas had occurred during this time era. Additionally, famous people had came into the picture; such as the Medici family, Gutenberg, and Da vinci and created new inventions and techniques to help make the lives of many Europeans easy; one significant invention was gunpowder. So how did gunpowder change the course of Europe and had changed warfare during the renaissance? The invention of gunpowder changed the course of Europe and warfare by knights being replaced by soldiers armed with firearms, the development of rockets, artillery, bombs, and weapons, and by it leading some countries; such as China with an advantage during wars and battles.

====One of the reasons how gunpowder had changed Europe and warfare by soldiers armed with guns replacing knights. [|Since the firearms were so powerful that they pierced and penetrated through armor], generals had to stop sending in soldiers armed with shields and swords and had to find ways of how to armed their soldiers with guns. In addition, Solders with firearms could stay at an distance and inflict heavy amounts of damage to the enemy. Lastly, since the old formations for the knights could not work for the new and equipped soldiers, generals had came up with [|four all new formations for the soldiers with guns; they are line, column, square, and skirmishers.]====

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====Since gunpowder had came into the picture, engineers had developed rockets, artillery, bombs, and all new weapons.[| The Chinese had created many different types of bombs; such as smoke, fire, explosive, and shrapnel.] [|Their had also been guns with many different types of powder; such as blinding, violent, bruising and burning, smoke screens, and poison.] Armies had build rockets and artillery to cause huge amounts of damage to the enemy.====

====The final way gunpowder had changed the course of Europe and warfare by leading some countries with an advantage during warfare. For example, the Chinese had an advantage when fighting the mongols. Additional, the Spanish, Ottoman empire, Portugal, and Japan had also acquired firearms. Lastly,[| the Arabs had acquired the knowledge of gunpowder, and then later on Al-Rammah had written, in Arabic, recipes for different types of gunpowder and Muslim armies had used explosives against the sixth crusade army in the 13th century.]====

====The invention of gunpowder had greatly changed Europe and warfare during the renaissance. Gunpowder had changed knights for soldiers with firearms, had led to the development of rockets, artillery, bombs, and weapons, and lead some countries with an advantage during warfare.====

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