Assertion: gunpowder | /r/CapableOf | make its way
Facets:
value: around the 13th century
type: TEMPORAL
value: to europe
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: via explorers
type: OTHER
value: via other diplomats
type: OTHER
value: according to the smithsonian
type: OTHER
value: to arabia
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: via franciscan missionaries
type: OTHER
value: by routes
type: MANNER
value: westward
type: MANNER
value: exactly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: It remains unclear when, exactly, gunpowder made its way to Europe.
text: According to the introduction to the 1999 edition of Partington by Bert Hall, "Gunpowder proper seems to have first appeared in 1044 A.D. in China, and to have worked its way westward over the next three centuries by routes still uncertain," referring to the 1044 "Collection of the Most Important Military Techniques" which includes three recipes for "gunpowder proper.
text: Then, around the 13th century, gunpowder and the recipes to create it made their way to Europe and Arabia via other diplomats, explorers and Franciscan missionaries, according to the Smithsonian.