Balance Point

Many historians believe that the Mongol invasion of Europe brought the Europeans knowledge of uses of gunpowder and therefore ushered in the gunpowder age in Europe. But what if the Mongols had not invaded Europe? This would have casued the Europeans, because of their style of "honorary" warfare, with men pitting their courage against one another in close-range combat, to begin using gunpowder almost two hundred years later. The most powerful nations in the world are Asian and North American, with the European countries still behind both economicly and militaristicly