Talk:Chinese (Age of Empires II)/@comment-25865593-20150723201114/@comment-74.197.141.52-20160109203625

Thw Chinese actually did use gunpowder as a weapon, but they used rockets rather than guns. The cannon was most definitely a European invention (most likely French). The oldest example of one comes from an English treatise from 1326, which depicted a french siege cannon called a "pot-de-fer."