The
early modern period saw the rapid evolution of gunpowder related technology.
Both portable personal firearms and cannon gained ease if operation, power and
accuracy. Early modern states, confronted with the greatly increases costs of
firearms, turned their attention to improving their assessment and collection.
Military organization light field artillery in place of the medieval reliance
on heavily armors mounted cavalry. The most potent new technology of the period
was printing with movable metal type. The new invention was especially suitable
for Romans and other writing system with limited number of symbolic letters
.China, Japan and Korea all which have ideographic writings system remained
attached to their sophisticated technology of woodblock printing which
supported wide publication of books. The Islamic and Indian world was slow to
give up manuscripts and the pen to use less appealing metal type printings.
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