[Sca-cooks] Muslims with Guns, was: Irish Stew recipe

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach denterleather1:
>  > Adamantius wrote:
>>  >It tends to lead to the Mysterious Islamic Vikings With Guns phenomenon
>>  >(Muslims are period, Vikings are period, and so are guns, sooooo... .).
>>
>>  Well, actually both the Ottoman Turks and the Persians had guns in
>>  period. Can't say anything about the Viking part, though...
>
>
><<<<<There were not allot of guns, even primitive ones in the 9th century.
>though the Chinese had crude cannon then, the Vikings did not:) any way We
>don't need no stinkin' guns!

I was unaware that the Chinese had either cannons or rockets with any
military applications (except perhaps incendiary devices, which
pretty much includes most rockets) before Europeans did. Gunpowder,
definitely.

Can you point me at a book detailing this?

Adamantius