Assertion: time gunpowder | /r/ObjectUse | used in western world
Facets:
value: for military purposes
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: However, the very first time gunpowder was used in the Western world for military purposes was in 1262, when king Alfonso X of Castile set siege to the city of Niebla in Spain whose Spanish-Arab inhabitants used some sort of primitive gun against the Spaniards.[citation needed]