gunpowder empire

Your challenge is to make the Chinese army, at the very least, keep pace with the Ottomans in terms of gunpowder weapons. I've read a few threads talking about the Chinese keeping pace with European weapons, but I don't know if that's a proper comparison, a more apt comparison would be with the...

So, in the early modern middle east and northern India, three states (the Ottomans, the Safavids, and the Mughals) were able to quickly adopt and establish local monopolies over gunpowder, and as a result were able to become vast space filling empires. Your mission, should you choose to accept...

The Abridged History of Al-Habashah: From Axum to Abyssinia By Taym Ansary (Author of Such Books as "Destiny Delivered" and "Kabul East and West" "I remember my trip to Gandar quite well, stopping in the area to meet with an old friend of mine who had persued his life in the path of being an...