The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History by Tonio Andrade

The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History

Tonio Andrade

400 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was ea...

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