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Gunpowder is one of those weird things that are beyond crucial to the development of modern history but are also more than able to be created and used millennia before its OTL introduction.

Provided you have the appropriate amount of time to develop whatever techniques and technologies to make gunpowder widely used in weaponry. How does that affect the development of the civilizations of the Bronze Age (Hittites, Egyptians, Babylon) does it lead to more stable polities, wider urbanization, the aversion of cavalry armies altogether?
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