PC: Other discoveries of gunpowder

Kaze

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What is needed is a tradition of chemistry / alchemy.

So I would give the Arabs and some European Alchemists trying to turn base metals into Gold could in theory create gunpowder or a variant of it*.

* - possible variant:

If you mix sulfur, lead, mercury, and other chemicals together wrong you can create a formula close to modern-day blasting caps. A very inventive alchemist in Europe or the Arabian states could in theory create blasting caps, from there you could make a tech leap to TNT, Nitroglycerin, etc and skip over gunpowder for stuff that is much worse.

Then once you have your blasting caps, TNT, etc all you have to do is apply them for warfare.
 
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