Assertion: gunpowder | /r/ObjectUse | used for warfare
Facets:
value: as early as the 900s
type: TEMPORAL
value: in china
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Originally developed by the Taoists for medicinal purposes, gunpowder was first used for warfare about 904 AD.
text: Even though gunpowder was used for warfare in China as early as the 900s, it remained in its crude form there and the bamboo cannons where not very useful except for shooting fire balls at a very short distance.
text: Originally developed by the Taoists for medicinal purposes, gunpowder was first used for warfare about 1000 AD.