WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT CHINA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ was probably invented around the year 900 AD. It was used for rockets, grenades and bombs.
A
gun powder
B
arsenic
C
dynamite
D
Acme
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Almost certainly they were mostly. Gunpowder was invented in China around or perhaps before 900AD.

Detailed explanation-2: -Gunpowder was indeed invented in China, but it was applied to warfare as soon as its properties became clear. For centuries before Westerners began using gunpowder on the battlefield, the Chinese were experimenting with all kinds of gunpowder weapons: fire arrows, rockets, fire lances, bombs, and eventually guns.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Chinese fire lance, a bamboo tube that used gunpowder to fire a spear, invented in the 10th century, is regarded by historians as the first gun ever made. Gunpowder was previously invented in China in the 9th century.

Detailed explanation-4: -Gunpowder was first use in warfare as an incendiary, or fire-producing, compound. Small packages of gunpowder wrapped in paper or bamboo were attached to arrows and lit with a fuse. Bombs of gunpowder mixed with scrap iron would be launched with catapults.

Detailed explanation-5: -The correct answer is Babur. Babur was the first to use gunpowder in India.

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