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  • The Mongol Empire – the fir...
    HAW, STEPHEN G.

    Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 07/2013, Volume: 23, Issue: 3
    Journal Article

    This article uses Chinese sources to argue that a range of gunpowder weapons was already in use in China during the late tenth and early eleventh centuries, earlier than previously thought. ‘True firearms’, that is cannon or guns firing solid projectiles, had quite probably been developed by at least as early as 1200 ce.