Mankind learns to fly - what if?

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However, there is no logical reason that pre-modern societies could not have discovered the principle of hot-air balloons or kites/gliders earlier than OTL and made some limited use of these discoveries. But there is simply no way gliders or balloons could be much more than novelties without a means of powering them. You need to describe and justify this technological leap before asking what Aerial Arabs or Airborne Alexanders might do with aircraft.
Hot air balloons were used in pre-medieval China, in the Later Han period.
 
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