As time went on, however, guns and gunpowder appeared in war, which greatly reduced the effectiveness of the English bows and arrows. By the time the war ended, the English had lost all the territories they had gained during the war except the French port of Calais (加来). 起初,战争对...
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Chinese need to work on. We Chinese invented gunpowder first, instead of using it as guns, we used it as firecrackers; we were the first to invent the compass, we didn’t use it to sail, otherwise the earth Many places are ours in China, and we use it as a compass for fortune-...
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it became standard in China to pack gunpowder into cast iron, producing not only grenades but also cannonballs in this manner. These normally had a fuse attached so that at least a couple of seconds existed between the time the grenade or cannonball was lit, and the time it was thrown ...