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True or False: Gunpowder weapons made knights uneffective
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False.
Gunpowder weapons did not instantly make knights ineffective — early firearms were slow, inaccurate, and often stopped by good plate armor — but over the 15th–17th centuries the rise of powerful artillery, massed firearms, and new infantry tactics (pike-and-shot, volley fire, fortifications) gradually eroded the battlefield dominance of heavily armored cavalry, making the traditional medieval knight increasingly obsolete.
Gunpowder weapons did not instantly make knights ineffective — early firearms were slow, inaccurate, and often stopped by good plate armor — but over the 15th–17th centuries the rise of powerful artillery, massed firearms, and new infantry tactics (pike-and-shot, volley fire, fortifications) gradually eroded the battlefield dominance of heavily armored cavalry, making the traditional medieval knight increasingly obsolete.
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