Gunpowder helped many empires grow but it also caused many to fall. Gunpowder helped Empires like the Ottoman and the Safavid, it helped the grow in many ways such as; expanding their territory, reestablishing power, and protect trade routes. When one empire got gunpowder they might have helped their neighboring empire if they were allied with them. Such as the Ottoman and Safavid empires, when the Ottomans got gunpowder they taught the Safavids about it.…
This can be considered as another achievement. It is long like the Great Wall, link up Europe, Middle East, Asia for trading, mainly. In addition, the four majors invention of China is the gunpowder, the compass, papermaking, and printing. However, they didn't get improve after that. Eventually, others countries get more success in those majors, although others invent after China did.…
From 205 BC to 220 AD China was ruled by the Han dynasty. The Han dynasty was a time of great innovation with both positive and negative impacts. Innovations like the development and popularization of the silk road had several positive impacts on China. However, these innovations would eventually cause the fall of the Han dynasty. The Civil Service Exam is one of these innovations.…
The Dynasty encouraged the labor and the people working with technology, unlike Rome, who only held distaste in it. Through this encouragement of labor and work by the government, new technology advanced because people needed a way to shortcut the long hours of work; to make labor easier for them to carry out. As an example, the pestle and mortar were created, according to a document, by Fuxi, who was a mythological wise emperor (Doc. 3). The document expands on the development of the pestle and mortar into something more complex and sophisticated. The fact that Fuxi was attributed by the Han philosopher Huan Tuan to be the creator of the pestle and mortar only serves to prove that the Han dynasty respected technology and its advancements.…
The Han empire located in China and said to be one of the most sophisticated cultures in its time period. One advance in technology Han had been water conservation. Han struggled with flooding dilemmas in the past situations. A Han government official wrote to local officials concerning flood prevention and suggested that they build walls along rivers would help flood control and it did. Another invention was the pestle and the mortar.…
The development of bronze for tool-making aided humans in constructing a variety of weapons such as swords and axes and other objects such as bracelets, necklaces, and cauldrons. Gunpowder was the next biggest development in tool-making, which took place in China, where they had began using it in fireworks. News of the invention later spread to Europe in around 1300, where they began using gunpowder in cannons and guns, which were both used in warfare. However, during this period, guns were too cumbersome so the most efficient and most widely used weapon was the bow and arrow because of its speed and accuracy. The next major technological development in tool-making also occurred in China with the invention of the compass.…
The first weapon that the army used gunpowder for was a cannon that fired small stone balls from a bamboo tube by putting gunpowder in the bottom and lighting a fuse. This is how the cannon and gun both came to be. The Chinese tried to keep their new found weapon to themselves, but eventually the Islamists and Romans had managed to figure out how to use it as a…
When looking at Document 6, “China invented porcelain, paper, ink, and gunpowder (which was used in fireworks).” (Document 6). Gunpowder just may be the most important product on this list, because of all the usage throughout all of the wars in the world leading up to now. This could also be thought of as a very unhelpful product because it made killing much easier in war, but even if gunpowder and guns didn’t exist humans would still…
In Tang Dynasty, the gunpowder was being used for military affairs. It gave China huge advantage in war against other countries. Gunpowder is still used for today for entertainment but also unfortunately used for war to kill our own kind.…
By the 13th century gunpowder reached all of Europe, it soon was improved by many countries and kingdoms alike. They all were working on what kind of gunpowder would be the most effective and safe mixture. “Europeans are the first people to discover that by wetting the gunpowder during grinds they could produce a uniform paste…
This weapon was used by chinese warriors. These oldest rockets were very primitive, they were not accurate, nor stable. They used Black powder as a propellent. By the 1300s, rocket use had spread throughout Europe, and Asia. For hundreds of years they were only used for entertainment.…
Moving on to the Mughal Empire, which was located in modern-day India from about 1526 to 1857. The Mughals had, as expected, a very strong military; and like the other Gunpowder Empires, they used gunpowder as a way to further this. However, they used it in a way that the other empires did not: rockets. Although these were essentially just arrows that packed a little bit more of a punch, they were undoubtedly an upgrade from standard arrows. As well as this…
The book, Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive that Changed the World by Jack Kelly is about the history of gunpowder, how it evolved to become more powerful and explosive, and how it affected the many wars that occurred. Gunpowder was first invented by Chinese alchemists around 1110 A.D. They called the perfect mixture of saltpeter, charcoal, and sulfur "fire drug," before it was known as gunpowder. The Chinese used the powder primarily for making noise for their festivals. However; as time went on, and as the powder became more advanced, people started using it to make weapons.…
Another contributor to China’s economy was the invention of silk. Silk was a highly valuable material that China used for trade. Because silk was so popular, this lead to the Silk Road; a trading rout between China and other civilizations. As a result, this trading caused cultural immersion, making Chinese culture more diverse and bringing in new…
Some inventions, however, saw continuity from the first to second-wave civilization. In the first-wave civilizations, in terms of weapons, swords, arrows, and axes were used. The Chinese made advancements in weaponry, namely, the invention of piston bellows, firearms, and gunpowder, changing the game of warfare. In addition, the invention of the draw-loom, silk-handling machinery, the magnetic compass, the iron-chain suspension bridge, paper, and porcelain was also of Chinese origin, and that’s only naming a few. Meanwhile, India initiated the crystallization of sugar and developed methods for making cotton textile.…