launch rocks, and semi-round objects. Eventually, this lead to the “hand-held cannon,” which was much smaller, and easily used. Also, these were not too helpful during the war because they were extremely unreliable, and inaccurate. The aim on the larger cannons was much better, but they were risky because after a shot was fired the cannon was “pushed” backward by the force of the blow, which could easily crush a man. Gunpowder paved the way for the wars of today. If the Chinese hadn’t invented gunpowder to scare away “evil spirits,” then we would never be able to fight wars “the modern way.” This would mean that things like Atomic Physics might not be discovered because the development of gunpowder lead to bigger and better weapons, which eventually lead to bombs, and atom bombs, which require the knowledge of Atomic Physics. This would mean that we might not be as advanced in “the scientific ways” as we are today. Also, if not for gunpowder, then we might have still been fighting in the ways of the ancients. Also, no guns would be invented until the Chinese invented gunpowder, which in a sense is good, but look at what would happen to the scientific world. The most important inventions of the Middle Ages, which can be seen by even the most ignorant reader, are the developments of the cannon and gunpowder. Think what the scientific world would be like without the ideas and theories that spawned out of the development of bigger and better weapons; the race spawned by gunpowder and the cannon. These developments were even furthered by the Hundred Years War which showed the need for these weapons to be developed better, and made more reliable. Eventually these inventions spelled the end for primative warfare, by eliminating the need for knights, and city walls to hide behind for a siege. Just think of the disaster this could have caused to the research and development of ...
