7.In Britain, the Puritan Revolution refers to ___ A.The War of Roses B.The Hundred Years’ War C.The Seven Years’ War D.The Civil War 8.When Oliver Cromwell became the ruler of the commonwealth, one of his first acts was to crush a rebellion in ___, killing all the inhabitants...
同上。 Geoffrey Parker, “The Gunpowder Revolution 1300-1500,” InThe Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare: The Triumph of the West (Cambridge Illustrated Histories), ed. Geoffrey Parker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 115. von Clausewitz,On War, 596. Ibid., 618. Williamson Mu...
The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the BombTHE ASIAN MILITARY REVOLUTION: From Gunpowder to the Bomb, Peter A. Lorge, Cambridge University...Hunter-Chester, DavidU.S. Army CGSCMilitary Review
many incendiary bombs and burning devices had been used. The invention of gunpowderis usually attributed toChinese alchemy. It is known to all that gunpowderis listed as one ofthe “Four Great Inventions” of China. The invention was made perhaps ...
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7.James I——the Gunpowder Plot——Guy Fawkes night 8.Charles I ——the Petition of Right——English Civil War——included a series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians(“roundheads”圆颅党)and Royalists保皇党(“cavaliers”骑士党)from 1642 until ...
The introduction of gunpowder to Europe led to innovations in offensive weapons, such as cannon, and defences, such as fortifications. From the 1320s a member of the Royal Household, the 'Keeper of the Privy Wardrobe in the Tower of London', became increasingly responsible for the procurement,...
that the gunpowder fright is got out of all our heads, and we are going on, hereabouts, as if the devil was contriving every man shoud blow up himself, by wild riot, excess, and devastation of time and temperance. The great ladies do go well-masked, and indeed it be the only show...
39、ported porcelain(瓷器), then silk, gunpowder, tea, imported species, pepper, cotton and other commodities.,50,The Silk Road had served for tens of hundreds of years as the main route of business over the continents of Asia, Europe and Africa, an artery of Commodity Flow and cultural ...
The classic Great Game period is generally regarded as running from approximately 1813 to the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907. Following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 a second, less intensive phase followed. Wikipedia The Wikipedia article has a very interesting section titled "The Great Game ...