History+of+Firearms

The History of Firearms by: Kyle and Collin The firearm made the world what is today. It is a very big impact.

Black Powder Black gunpowder or gunpowder is made of sulfer, charcoal, and pottsium nitrate. It is flamable but is low explosive and it also produces smoke. It is not used in modern firearms.

The Inventors

Both China and Japan claim to have invented it. China made a fire lance which was a gun powder filled tube on the end of the spear that was used like a flame thrower some times had a projectile in it that would fly out with the fire its tube was bamboo. The Japanese had a hand cannon that shot a stone and was powered by black gun powder.

Firearms in the West

Around the 1400's the europeans developed a hand cannon. This eventauly lead to the inventoin of the flintlock rifle, breech loader then the automatic wepon.They first found firearms in the first half of the 13th centry and around 1382 they started using them.

Firearms in the Middle East The Aribs Discovered Fire arm in the 1300s. They saw the Malmuks use them angainst the Mongolins.

Ancient India Used warfare for 5000 years. First firearms were cannons, harquebus and match lock (later the Flintlock). The first recorded battle was the Dasrajan War. It was in 1900 B.C.

China China used gunppowder powered weapons.

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