The first fire and gunpowder weapons of the Middle Ages, including Byzantine Greek fire, the Chinese fire lance and thunderclap bomb, and the hand cannon. A weapon belongs here when its cited article describes it as an incendiary or early gunpowder weapon. It excludes large siege guns, which sit in the medieval siege engines and cannon group. These weapons mark the arrival of fire and then gunpowder on the medieval battlefield, with Greek fire used at sea by the Byzantine navy and the fire lance and bomb used by Song and Jin armies in China.
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Wikipedia: Greek fire
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Greek fire was an incendiary weapon used by the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the fourteenth centuries.
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Greek fire was an incendiary weapon used by the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the fourteenth centuries.
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The fire lance (simplified Chinese: 火枪; traditional Chinese: 火槍; pinyin: huǒqiāng; lit. 'fire spear') was a gunpowder weapon used by lighting it on fire, and is the ancestor of modern firearms.
Wikipedia: Thunder crash bomb
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The thunder crash bomb (Chinese: 震天雷; pinyin: zhèntiānléi), also known as the heaven-shaking-thunder bomb, was one of the first bombs or hand grenades in the history of gunpowder warfare.
Wikipedia: Hand cannon
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The hand cannon (simplified Chinese: 火铳; traditional Chinese: 火銃; pinyin: huǒchòng or 手铳; 手銃; shǒuchòng), also known as the gonne or handgonne, is the first true firearm and the successor of the fire lance.
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