Thread:SaynaSLuke/@comment-2142396-20150713125317/@comment-26073479-20150713231145

Sorry to jump in to your conversation, but I've got some answers about the gunpowder, if you guys want :) I'm actually doing cannons and gunpowder in my own fic, and so thus had to do some research for it XD

Anyways, depending on the period of medieval history you want to represent, gunpowder and black powder actually aren't too high-tech. Towards the end of the age (getting towards the end of the 13th or 14 century, I think), the Arabs used stone balls fired out of lower-tech cannons. (I think that's how Constatinople fell). And then it progressed from there. So yeah, that's basically it :) Does it help?