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>>722456582
FUN FACT:
The romans had the necessary metallurgy, machining, and chemistry to make a machine gun, they just never had the idea. If you went back in time and gave them that fifty they would have been able to replicate it.

>>722457093
Interesting!

>>722457093
...everything except gunpowder.

But amazingly they did have a rudimentary steam engine. They only used it as a toy.
Fill it with water. Place it over a fire and it would spin like a top.

Imagine if they'd put THAT to use.

>>722457569
They didn't have gunpowder itself, but they did have a sufficiently workable understanding of chemisty to duplicate it if you gave them the idea and some samples to study (the box of cartridges on the side of that machine gun, for example).