This is the History of the World Podcast Illuminati De Brief.

Hello everyone, welcome to the history of the world podcast

Illuminati debrief this is for the episode that we just had on gun powder

what did you think of it was it? Did it give you a bit more

of an insight about the transition of gunpowder into a major sort of manufacturing phenomenon of Europe.

How do you feel about its impact on European culture, on global culture.

Don't forget to write in and let me know.

Anyway, we did that episode and one of the key books that I used for writing this episode has to be the,

I'll just reach out and get it bear with me

Yeah yeah yeah I've got it right here beside me

It's called the gunpowder age and it's by a tonrady and I found it very very useful indeed for understanding

the timelines of gunpowder development and digging a little deeper into the stories such as the one of the

gunpowder factory or the munitions factory or it might have just been a storage facility I should say.

In China that exploded that one in the 13th century. Never knew about that until I read that book. So good book and

excellent resource for this particular episode.

I did pick up a book from D.K books, good old D.K books, can't speak highly enough of D.K. books.

It's called the Military History book and it's a wonderful

reference book with with many great images of weapons from the beginning of time right through to today.

It's, you know, if you're interested in military history,

it is an absolute must have for your bookshelf I promise you that.

And then of course the the book World History from the ancient world to the information age by Philip Parker is you know it's it's worked as my

backbone to the entire podcast series I would suggest. This particular episode on Gunpowder was inspired by what Philip Parker had

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