Early modern warfare | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-04

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00:01:58 1 Use of gunpowder before the 16th century
00:02:10 1.1 Origins of gunpowder
00:03:11 1.2 Spread of gunpowder weapons
00:04:45 1.2.1 Gunpowder revolution or evolution?
00:09:58 2 Europe
00:10:07 2.1 Beginning of polygonal fortifications
00:12:22 2.2 Firearms
00:14:01 2.2.1 Decline of plate armour
00:16:28 2.2.2 Transition to flintlock muskets
00:18:45 2.3 Nature of war
00:26:27 2.4 Infantry
00:27:51 2.5 Cavalry
00:31:13 2.6 Naval warfare
00:32:12 3 Islamic empires
00:32:22 3.1 Ottoman Empire
00:35:10 3.1.1 15th century
00:39:15 3.1.2 16th century
00:41:18 3.1.3 17th century
00:42:53 3.2 Iran
00:44:22 3.3 Mughal Empire
00:45:27 3.4 Kingdom of Mysore
00:46:24 3.5 Somalia
00:47:39 4 East Asia
00:47:48 4.1 Japan
00:52:55 4.2 Vietnam
00:53:31 4.3 China
00:56:29 5 See also



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Early modern warfare is associated with the start of the widespread use of gunpowder and the development of suitable weapons to use the explosive, including artillery and firearms; for this reason the era is also referred to as the age of gunpowder warfare (a concept introduced by Michael Roberts in the 1950s).
This entire period is contained within the Age of Sail, which characteristic dominated the era's naval tactics, including the use of gunpowder in naval artillery.
All of the Great Powers of Europe and the Islamic gunpowder empires were actively fighting numerous wars throughout this period, grouped in rough geographical and chronological terms as:

The European wars of religion between the 1520s and the 1640s (including the Thirty Years' War, the Eighty Years' War and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms) and, the  Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659), the Northern Wars, Polish–Swedish wars and  Russo-Swedish Wars;
The Russo-Turkish Wars, Ottoman–Habsburg wars, and other Ottoman wars in Europe.
In the Horn of Africa, the Adal's conquest of Ethiopia and the involving of the Ottomans, Mamluks and the Portuguese.
In Asia, the Persia–Portugal war, Nader's Campaigns, the Mughal conquests, the Chinese Ten Great Campaigns, and the Anglo-Mysore Wars;
Throughout the 18th century the "Second Hundred Years' War", an umbrella term which includes the Nine Years' War, Seven Years' War, War of the Spanish Succession, War of the Austrian Succession, American War of Independence (American Revolutionary War), French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars of the late 18th to early 19th centuries which mark the end of this era.