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what is Muskets and Matchlocks?

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Answered by Anonymous
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Musket
= A muzzled loaded smooth bore, long gun that appear in early 16th century Europe, at first as a heavy variant arquebus , capable of penetrating heavy armor.

Matchlocks
= The first mechanism invented to facilitates the firing of a hand-held firearm. Before this, firearm had to be fired by applying a lit match to the priming powder in the flash pan.


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Answered by kittukanchan12
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The Afghanistan and Egypt soldiers were armed with muskets and matchlocks .

Muskets -it is a heavy gun used by infantry soldiers .

Matchlock -an early type of gun in which the powder was ignited by a match .

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