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This is what gunpowder looked like during Silk Road times.

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During ancient times, gunpowder was made by using these raw materials:

1.  Charcoal
2. Saltpeter (potassium nitrate)
3. Sulfur

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Here is a video about how gunpowder was invented, and why it was invented.

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The deadly irony of gunpowder - Eric Rosado

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During Silk Road times, gunpowder was made by mixing sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter.

Different countries had different methods of making gunpowder, but this was the method they used to make gunpowder in Ancient China.

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Gunpowder was invented in China during the mid-ninth century AD by early Chinese alchemists, who were trying to create a potion for immortality, but failed and created a flammable powder that burned down their houses. They called it “fire medicine” but then realized that it was the opposite of immortality because it killed people.

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Gunpowder was traded all over the world.

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It was a surplus in China because they created it and because in the beginning of the Silk Road, they were the only ones who knew how to make gunpowder.

Although China invented gunpowder, a Korean scientist named “Chow Museon” created weapons out of the gunpowder.

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At the beginning of the Silk Road trade, gunpowder was valued mostly in Europe and Africa, because they and other countries didn’t know how to make gunpowder yet, but afterwards they learned how to make it.

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Gunpowder Video

The Invention of Gunpowder

History of Gunpowder: Gunpowder in ancient China