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Gunpowder Weaponry: Europe vs. China
In Western Europe during the 1200s through the 1400s, early cannons, as heavy and as slow to fire as they were, proved useful enough in the protracted sieges that dominated warfare during this period that governments found it sufficiently worthwhile to pay for them and for the experimentation that eventually produced gunpowder weapons that were both more powerful and easier to move. By contrast, China, especially after the mid-1300s, was threatened mainly by highly mobile steppe nomads, against whom early gunpowder weapons, with their unwieldiness, proved of little utility. It therefore devoted its efforts to the improvement of horse archer units who could effectively combat the country's deadliest foe.
The argument in this passage most closely relates to which of the following large-scale questions about global history?

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history

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  1. Why Silk Road commerce dwindled across the breadth of Eurasia after 1500 C.E.
  2. How societies shared strategically important technologies with each other
  3. How the threat of steppe nomads shaped China's military strategy in the 1300s
  4. Why China and Europe had different military strategies during the Middle Ages
  5. How the medieval climatic optimum affected the process of cultural diffusion
  6. Why European states went on to attain military superiority over non-Western powers in the modern era
  7. How the development of gunpowder weaponry influenced the outcomes of wars in the Middle Ages
  8. How the geopolitical environment influenced the development of military technology in different regions
  9. Why China chose to invest in horse archer units instead of gunpowder weaponry during the medieval period
  10. How the development of gunpowder weaponry was influenced by the economic status of countries

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4994
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