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In doing so, he shows that changes in military technology are limited not to. Thermodynamics, for example, is a science partly born from military technology. I suggest you pick it up and read it over the summer. Military technology is the application of technology for use in warfare. Third, the military technology of the songyuan era can be compared to that of europe in the same period.
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