Cannons In Europe During The Middle Ages

Sam Swanson Junior Division Website

At first, I was interested in how computers changed life as we know it. But then I realized that the topic was too modern. So I looked at what I was interested in: explosions, guns and medieval times. I thought about it and did some preliminary research and wanted to do the origins of cannons. But that was too hard to track down so then I did some more research and wanted to do the standardization of cannons in the middle ages. But I ran into problems with that so I changed it to cannons in Europe during the middle ages. For my research I looked on the Internet for any type of secondary sources and I found some online books that were very helpful. Then I went to the Wilson Library at the University of Minnesota and found a couple more books. I also went to the Minneapolis Hullabaloo. Most of the books were very helpful. The books helped me understand why cannons were important and some of the drawbacks of early cannons. The sources were very helpful because I learned some information that was different than I had expected and raised questions. I picked a website because a paper isnt very exciting to me. Everyone does a poster board and I wanted to do something that not everyone was doing. Its hard for me to do documentaries and performance because of my stage fright. So that left websites, and the idea of a website appealed to me. I liked the idea of learning about websites also. My project connects to the NHD theme of revolution because cannons revolutionized warfare. Without cannons, warfare as we know it wouldnt exist because cannons were the first weapons that used gunpowder. They were very important because they effected Europes history in the Hundred Years War and capturing Constantinople. Its important to know about cannons because war is very important in todays world and its important to know how modern warfare was started.