Sentences with phrase «invention of gunpowder»

For instance, swords and spears have been the standard for warfare for thousands of years, but the invention of gunpowder suddenly changed how things were done in a matter of decades.

Their primary purpose though is to attempt to enrich what we're seeing with authentic human moments in a film where no period of history, even ones centuries before the invention of gunpowder, is safe from explosions that propel bodies like debris in graceful slow - motion arcs.

But as armor began to become obsolete in the 1600s with the invention of gunpowder, the greaves and sabatons were the first things to go.

Not exact matches

Though rural China these days seems in need of a new round of inventions, it is irrefutably true that the Chinese originated many of the pivotal creations of history, including papermaking, printing, gunpowder, and the compass.

The art work includes paintings made with gunpowder, commissioned robots, inventions created from the imagination of peasants and a giant aircraft carrier surrounding by suspended planes, UFOs and other flying machines.