How different would the world be today had firearms never been invented?
>>1539686
How would you possible not invent firearms?
>>1539693
Yeah, this.
That's why I asked the question.
>>1539686
The west would never have been won
Byzantine Empire would still exist
No america
>>1539693
The invention of gunpowder was kind of a fluke, anon. It was the result of 9th century Chinese monks mixing random shit together to try and make an immortality potion.
It's not that hard to imagine an alternate reality where that accident never happened.
>>1540717
And you think we wouldn't have just discovered it later by either a similar accident or through scientific knowledge and used it for military applications?
>>1540164
Why would the Byzantine Empire still exist?