page_title: Early modern warfare
section_title: Use of gunpowder before the 16th century
hierarchical_section_title: Early modern warfare / Use of gunpowder before the 16th century
caption_attribution_description: English: 7th drawing from the first roll of the Illustrated Account of the Mongol invasion of Japan, showing Samurai Takezaki Suenaga fighting back Mongolian warriors, during the Battle of Bun&#39;ei, in 1274. 日本語: 蒙古襲来絵詞前巻、絵七。【文永の役】矢・槍・てつはうの飛び交う中、馬を射られながら蒙古軍に突撃する竹崎季長と、応戦・逃亡する蒙古兵。 Français&#160;: 7ème dessin du premier rouleau des rouleaux illustrés des invasions mongoles du Japon, montrant le samouraï Takezaki Suenaga combattant les guerriers mongols, pendant la bataille de Bun&#39;ei, en 1274.
context_page_description: The 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. 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 and, the Franco-Spanish War, 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;
caption: A Mongol bomb thrown against a charging Japanese samurai during the Mongol invasions of Japan after founding the Yuan Dynasty, 1281.
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