How Did Gunpowder Change The World

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Gunpowder has changed to world because know the world has fireworks and guns all over the world.”Gunpowder is accidentally discovered by the Chinese”by http://historyofgunpowder01.weebly.com/timeline.html Obvio1usly the auother is talking about how the anchent chinians acedently invented gunpowder and they were tring to make a everlasting life potion and when the invented gunpowder they couldnt give it to there king because it was flamible and the chinaians called “it black fire medicine” the bad thing about gunpowder is that people are useing . “Chinese used gunpowder devices such as gunpowder filled tubes against the Mongols” clearly the person who wrote this quote because the chinese people invented gunpowder so they used it on a country

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