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----- by Class 6, Junior 3 Guns let lots of people suffer and die, though, the story of the gun is part of human history. Gunpowder-----one of Chineses Four Great Invention Chinese scientist first discovered that when you lit certain materials, they produced a lot of gas very quickly. The Chinese also realized that if these materials were put into a container and lit, they could blow the container to pieces. Gunpowder probably existed before 1044 in China. The invention of gunpowder helped the Chinese to keep their northern neighbor, like the Mongols, Nuzhens, out of their country gor many years. Then Mongols learned how to make gunpowder themselves. As the mongols moved west, gunpowder traveled with them. Guns in Europe The method of making gunpowder traveled with Mongols to the west, and the method arrived in the Arab world in the 12th century. The first English scienst, Roger Bacon read about it in Arabic writing and so brought the idea west. THE TIP OF BARREL(桶、炮身）： Europeans first made the cannon in the same way as a wooden barrel, with a number of long pieces of metal held together by round pieces. This is why, even today, we use the word barrel for the long part of a gun or cannon. Cannon were placed on European ships almost as soon as they appeared, and it also brought some terrible rusults for the ships. Some of the ships sank because they carried to much guns and cannons. And gunfire rarely sank wooden ships, though. Most ships were simply hit and hit again until they couldn’t move and most of the sailors were dead. HANDGUNS revolver semi-automatic handgun THE HISTORY ABOUT HANDGUNS The first handguns,which appeared in the fourteenth century,were simply cannon.Some people said that the earliest handguns were born in China .After Chinese made the gunpowders,they made handguns.But most people think that the first handguns were born in Germany. The metal barrel was held under the arm and a match was put to a hole at the back. In it’s b