>>63966538
>Gunpowder
Just blackpowder, gunpowder is French.
>firearms
Man-portable? Ottomans.
>rocket artillery
Granted, but lmao, back in the 12th century.
>>63966545
You got your shit rocked by the British & Americans after deciding you were too good for international trade, and spent the following century being turned into a nation of drug addicts while you struggled to reform a fundamentally broken system of taxation and industrialization enough to industrialize. And when that almost worked, the French and then the Japanese massacred your "modern" fleets in their harbors.