What if Gunpowder weapons in China had gone differently?

Formulas for the incendiary powder spread from Tang alchemists to the battlefield.

If it had gone differently: War stays a matter of walls, horses and bows; castles and cavalry keep their thousand-year dominance.

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Later turning points that leaned on Gunpowder weapons in China. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.

1. 1453The fall of Constantinople. Without it, The Mediterranean spice routes stay open and cheap; no one in Iberia is desperate enough to gamble on the open ocean.
2. 1600The chartered East India companies. Without it, European trade with Asia stays a matter of small merchant convoys; no company-states, no gunboat empires.
3. 1618The Thirty Years' War. Without it, Central Europe is spared its worst depopulation; the Holy Roman patchwork holds together longer.