Warfare
Warfare
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…showed last 75 words of 924 total…the supplies of copper and tin to make bronze
and of copper and zinc to make brass became critically important in
the growth of warfare(McNeil 86). This second bronze age enabled a
larger production of fire arms for about a century. Then the discovery
of how to cast iron in 1543, cut guns prices to about a twelfth of their
original cost. By the end of the 17th century nearly two-thirds of the
infantry had firearms