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The Mughal Empire is considered one of the "gunpowder empires" alongside Safavid Persia and the Ottoman Turks. What is so "gunpowder" about the Mughals when they relied so heavily on old school cavalry armed with lance and bow?

by /u/Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX in /r/AskHistorians

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