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Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 29, 2023

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Europe's success was being the first adopters of firearms

Except they weren't the first.

It was the Chinese who invented gunpowder, and the first time firearms see wide-spread use as practical battlefield weapons is in the Middle East during the Byzantine–Ottoman wars of the 14th century.