Gunpowder reached Europe through the rich Silk Road trade. The chemical formula for gunpowder and the refinement process reached Europe in completed form by the late 13th century. Roger Bacon, a renowned early European alchemist (1214 - 1292), set forth the marvels of the world; among them he listed the ingredients of gunpowder. With the ingredients of gunpowder revealed European scientists, inventors and alchemists were ready to improve gunpowder.
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It was brought to Europe by the Mongols, who used it in the Battle of Mohi against the Hungarians in 1241.
Ancient Romans did not use gunpowder. Gunpowder was invented by China around the middle ages.
No they had flammable substances but not gunpowder. MistroJoe
the compass, gunpowder, and printing
It was the Chariot
it is not, it is the fuel of the white man who wishes to destroy our lands, they have brought this fire rock and destroyed our native landmarks and sources of food, my family was tooken from me by the whites in the new moon season, I had tooken an elks life and halled it up the mountain to my village, as i came up i heard many gunshots. like thunder clap, boom, boom, boom. the lakota tribe did not take to kindly to the slaying of my family. so let us learn that this fire only brings death and destruction to the people