Gunpowder was a Spanish invention
Gunpowder is a tea that was invented in China around the 4th century AD, when Chinese alchemists who were trying to concoct an elixir of immortality stumbled upon this thing instead! Well, we are not disappointed at all. Thank you, China!
And what do you think? Was it an important invention? Would we face less violence without the invention of gunpowder?
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45 Comments
Douglas Oaten
It was originally used by the Chinese for preserving and seasoning meat! I think a barbecue was a rather hazardous event at the time
rbettis
It's not gunpowder that kills people, its people that kill one another, using Gunpowder, Rocks, Knifes, Drugs or even bad Pasta, it's still people that is the common cause of any negative results of any invention. Just as Computers has a very positive effect with what knowledge
we are able to obtain, and a very serious Negative effect if used in a criminal manner, it still comes down to PEOPLE, not the invention!
Keith Murray
WTF. Please tell me how the police profit from acts of violence!
Jim Hill
it was important and was inevitable. if china had not invented it someone else would have. plus it has many more uses than just guns and bombs
Peter Robertson
rbettis, That quintessential English Hotelkeeper Basil Fawlty said to a guest"I fought in the Korean war you know.I killed four people" His wife clarified to the guest. "He was a cook.He poisoned them"
jack patti go
Missed this!
Ilias Tsiabardas
I knew that one Chinese inveded gun powder
Alan Waites
am quite sure if it wasn't for the Chinese it would have been somebody else.
Zarin Patel
I guess someone one or another would have come up with the idea. Would it have prevented wars and Blood shed if not invented. I do not know. Maybe someone would have come up with an even more powerful invention
silrem
rbettis, it's always the invention never the people, that's why we have the saying, invention is the mother of Necessity.
silrem
Lousy skimpy explanation. Most people know gunpowder came from China, so give us good info about it we don't know.
Lynne Zeman
Searching for immortality and found the opposite. Sad.
ninakamwene
rbettis, DITTO! A knife can be used to carve a statue of David or to kill a human David.
ninakamwene
For the 1st time False was correct. I happen to know this otherwise I would have chosen my usual True. You tricked us on this one! Thank you.
Vance Duncan
Fell victim to the "auto-true-for-true-false-question" trap
mlhoover
After looking at some of the tales being offered about gun powder and how man has used it, maybe the world should go after the original manufacturer and that's China. Will you complain that nature created sharp sticks? It's not what an inventor does. Most cases show that and invention is a wonderful thing to be used by mankind. Man in his crazy way takes something good and then turns it around. With this thinking that everything is bad then we may as well be living in caves. Oh wait, we'll need sharp sticks and rocks to turn into knives and spears. Then we'll have fire to cook and have heat on cold nights.
lmjmom
Got it.
Karin Johansson
eugene wilson, fireworks kills a öot of humans amd animals every year. Also in the production of it. It is not entertainment when you know what it does.
Ed Taber
Lynn Gaulding Delage, Right you are, clubs and knives are so much more elegant.