Notes fragment: Gunpowder origins, sedentary bureaucratic empires, and models

Gunpowder: origins and warfare

• Gunpowder originated in China long before this period, but it began to be used effectively in warfare.

Sedentary bureaucratic empires

• They were sedentary bureaucratic empires.
• They adopted a new, more sophisticated sedentary tradition, which is what the leaders of these empires call themselves.

The "models" and familiarity

• The phrase "the models might be the most popularly familiar" appears in the transcript.
• "The models were really famous for" is incomplete in the transcript.

Completeness and next steps

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