For the Ming and Qing empire they had many advances in technology, weaponry, and warfare. But we will be talking about how gunpowder weapon affected their growth but also caused them to collapse as well. The Ming and Qing empire was the very first people to have gunpowder weapons. Them being the first people also made them very powerful. Their empire grew rather quickly because of their warfare advances. But whenever you rise you will always fall twice as hard. The Ming and Qing made the great mistake of using their gunpowder weapons for more defense than offense which was pretty dumb on their part. They fell because of that for a certain reason. Nomadic warriors, In my opinion if i had a group of 75 guys running at me with swords and bows
