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[-] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 4 points 5 days ago

People overestimate the complexity of guns. Take bronze age metallurgy culture and add black powder and the idea of putting a bronze bullet in a bronze tube with that powder, and you have muskets super early.

That would be honestly fucking crazy and an interesting alternate history, Romans failing to conquer an early musket Carthage

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