When Was Gunpowder Invented

Scientists in China during the Song Dynasty experimenting to find a elixir to grant immortality instead invented one the most deadly weapon: gunpowder. Gunpowder is the most negative invention not by creation, but by use. It is the basis for every weapon since it's invention and has more deaths attributed to it than the atomic bomb. Gunpowder has created more problems than it has solved. I concede not all uses of gunpowder are malicious. Fireworks are a prime example of how it can be used as an enjoyable and harmless medium. Gunpowder has also made it easier to hunt and kill animals to sustain life. However, it is never the proper and good-intended uses that create negative impacts. The misuse and abuse of gunpowder has lead to it being the most negative invention ever. Gunpowder has always been an extremely volatile substance. When invented, the scientists kept notes about how it caught on fire and burned serval of them and even burned their research center down. Even the most innocent use, fireworks, has resulted in thousands of deaths when factories have malfunctions and catch on fire, or worse, explode.

The most common use of gunpowder also lends to it's name: weaponry. It changed war methods from typically close, hand-to-hand combat to impersonal battles fought over distances. In it's most primitive form, it was put on the tips of arrows to shoot fire at distant enemies. It went on to facilitate the advancement of modern warfare as it's uses were discovered, from projectile cannons to single-shot muskets, handheld guns, and finally machine guns. War casualties soared with the use of guns and the newfound ease of taking lives, which is clearly a negative impact in and of