In our timeline, gunpowder was invented by the Chinese. Mythbusters demonstrates that even with precision equipment it takes practice to make your own gunpowder and have it work and it took decades if not a few centuries to go from invention of gunpowder to producing a high-quality product. In any given timeline, how likely is it that someone will be able to create a workable formula considering we have sketchy evidence for anyone but the Chinese inventing it independently?
I guess what I mean is, for every 100 timelines, how often do you think gunpowder will simply not be discovered in the period between 500-1500 AD?
I guess what I mean is, for every 100 timelines, how often do you think gunpowder will simply not be discovered in the period between 500-1500 AD?