Gunpowder

civilizations formed extensive communications through aids of trading, commerce, cultural exchange and inventions. During the Han dynasty, Chinese merchants prospered goods through The Silk Road. The Silk Road allowed merchants to sell silk, bamboo, and gunpowder along Eurasia. These goods increased in India, Middle East and allowed Confucianism and Buddhism exchange throughout Eurasia, while the values Confucianism and Buddhism increased in India and China. (Strayer, 321). Buddhist merchants…

hindered the use of fracking. Hydraulic fracturing should be more widely used. Originally, fracking was the process of placing gunpowder down a vertical shaft and the generated explosion would create cracks in the shale. The natural gas inside the shale would be released and collected above. Fracking began in the late 1800s and the use of gunpowder remained for decades. Gunpowder was abandoned…

Have you ever thought about how Europe became such a large empire? Jared Diamond, a UCLA professor, explains on the TV program Guns, Germs, and Steel, that it is due to geographic luck. Geographic luck is the term used to describe the phenomenon of the fact that people in some areas are just luckier than others. For instance, the Fertile Crescent got nutritious wheat and barley while Papua New Guinea got sago palm. However, Professor Diamond has the right idea. Geographic luck shaped the path to…

the most military advanced region of the globe since the early firearms were invented by the Chinese before the Europeans perfected them. Indeed, the earliest known formula for gunpowder is found in a Chinese work dating from the 800s. This allowed the Chinese to apply it to warfare through producing a variety of gunpowder weapons among them rockets, bombs, mines, and rockets before inventing the firearms. Together with the Japanese, the Chinese continued using firearms throughout the following…

English had the best bow in history, called the English Longbow. However, the composite bow was much more effective than the English longbow and could fire almost double the range of the longbow (Poisou). In addition, the Mongols had some of the first gunpowder weapons ever available including early forms of modern day weapons like firearms, grenades, and landmines. The usage of these weapons terrified the conquered people, but due to the vast conquests of the Mongols, these were spread all…

The True Genghis Khan Throughout time, there has been many influential people to impact history. From Caesar to Alexander the Great, many ruled empires across the world with great power. Unlike most empires, none were in comparison to the empire of the great Mongolian Emperor, Genghis Khan. The name Genghis Khan, still to this day, strikes fear into the minds of people. Known for being one of the most terrifying and savage forces to mankind, there is a lot to be understood about the emperor…

Yet, despite how acclaimed Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World is, it is clear that Weatherford is somewhat biased towards the Mongols and stretches the truth a little. He places too much emphasis on certain things like the use of gunpowder and other warfare techniques. Likewise, Weatherford repeats himself frequently. He cites the fact his source is the " Secret History of the Mongols" so often that the reviewer felt as if she should have reviewed that book. One main concern is the…

The fifteenth century had weapons that used gunpowder, printed books, and transoceanic voyages, and the beautiful art. The Middle Ages had left its imprint on the world, the navigation and ship technology that Christopher Columbus would sail the ocean blue in 1942 was a modify Middle Age technology. Subsequently, the printing press, ink, and paper had all been discovered before the fifteenth century, innovations had just been made. Thirdly, the gunpowder and firearms would be redefined and…

The Wars of religion primarily took place in the European region, the countries that were involved in the Wars of Religion include present day France, Germany, Austria and multiple others. The Wars of Religion took place from roughly 1524 to 1648, these wars were waged in the Northern and Western regions of Europe partially due to Protestant Reformation. There was not much religious tolerance during this time and the idea of changing what was already known was considered heresy and new ideas…

Rise through Force: European Hegemony and the Military Revolution With the dawn of the second millennium (C.E.), the bulk of Europe existed as a relative backwater and there was little foreseeable evidence that this fragmented conglomerate of fiefdoms would eventually surge forth to control a better part of the known and unknown world. But surge forth it did, and by the twentieth-century the West , for better or worse, had come to dominate and influence societies around the globe. As the…