A History of Weapons by John O'Bryan

Author:John O'Bryan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2013-11-12T22:00:00+00:00

BEING ASIAN in the Middle Ages was probably both thrilling and terrifying. While the West was concerned with recapturing Jesus’ manger, the Chinese were making serious advancements in the science of blowing shit up. Sometime around the ninth or tenth century ce, a team of Chinese alchemists was attempting to find an elixir for eternal life. Instead of making a life elixir, they blew themselves up in a massive laboratory explosion. They had accidentally learned the secrets of saltpeter, a critical component of the substance called gunpowder. A revolution in weaponry was about to begin. China was about to bring a gun to a knife fight.

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