Travel Back In Time With Me

Chapter -5

Then I went back to ancient China in the middle of the ninth century when the first Chinese chemists, one of whom was Roger Bacon, tried to make a medicine for immortality and I saw them hiding behind boxes of medicine and when they tasted one of them it said it tasted bad and the other said it was bitter,that's what happened that's why they invented a burning powder that burned down many of their homes. They soon learned that the black powder they called firewood was, in fact, the opposite of what would make them live forever. In these early days the Chinese had not yet found a way to make flour explode; it was just too hot and their troops used it to make flaming arrows and even a flamethrower. But when they found the right amount of ingredients to create the explosion, they began to use the powder even more to make explosives to keep evil spirits away from bombs to protect them from the Mongols. These are the Mongols who may be spreading the name of pumpkin all over the world. After launching the Chinese invasion, they learned how to make this powder themselves and brought it to their conquests in Persia and India. William of Rubruck, Europe's ambassador to the Mongols, may have been in charge of reclaiming a gun from Europe in about 1254. From there engineers and military inventors developed all sorts of weapons of mass destruction. From bombs to bullets to bullets, gunshots have left a mark on the world in some terrifying ways as opposed to the good marks that can be left in the air.