gunpowder empire

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词形变化

gunpowder empires 复数 gunpowder empires

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires, which all had considerable military success using then-innovative firearms, especially cannon and small arms.

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词源

Coined by Marshall G. S. Hodgson and William H. McNeill at the University of Chicago. Hodgson used the phrase as a title in The Venture of Islam (1974).

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