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Usually there are threads asking how late can the discovery of gunpowder be delayed, with the subtle hope of WWII happening with knights and swords p). Instead I'm asking at what time is the earliest that Europe could have gotten gunpowder either from discovering it themselves, getting it from the Chinese earlier, or the Chinese discovering it easier and passing it along to the Europeans.