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Gunpowder Rockets (Fire Arrows)
Chinese defenders at Kaifeng (1232) use 'arrows of flying fire': the first documented rockets, driven by gunpowder.
Open in the interactive tree →Gunpowder rockets spread across Asia and Europe, and William Congreve's iron-cased rockets (1804) made them an artillery weapon. They were the ancestors of the first space rockets.
Prerequisites
- Bow and Arrow~60,000 years agoFire arrows began as arrows fitted with gunpowder, later becoming rockets
- Gunpowder~900