West European style bombing tower, one of the few remaining
The bombing towers were stone towers built at the end of the tenth century. They usually consisted of guns firing at ships or siege weapons or simply to protect a city.
They were used by empires that used gunpowder as a weapon, among which are the Spanish Empire, Byzantine Empire, Ottoman Empire and the Korean Empire in the East. The Chinese, who were the inventors of gunpowder, did not use it as a weapon; however, cannons have been found on the Great Wall of China where they were possibly used as a defense and bombing towers were annexed.
Unlike a tribute tower, the bombing towers had greater range (since a cannon had more range than an archer).
Nowadays, there is not much evidence on these towers, since almost all of them were destroyed, not only by the invaders, but also by the same ones that constructed it, since they cost of many resources and they consisted of a long time to be built during the invasions as well as the use of cannons.
This article contains material from the popular encyclopedic dictionary Salvat from the years 1906 to 1914 which is in the public domain.
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