From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
    SolomonW wrote:   
      
   > It did help, gunpowder was used by the Sung dynasty against the   
   > Mongols,with some success.   
      
   But no industrial revolution!  They had gunpowder   
   but it didn't advance their society.   
      
   > The Romans would have found gunpower useful both as a weapon and in civil   
   > engineering.   
      
   The romans would have owned the planet, at least   
   until someone else uncovered the secret.   
      
      
      
      
      
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