Economics impacts of cannons

Ancient cannons were mainly used in a warfare called siege. Siege is when an invading force surronds a city and waits until the city's inhabintants surrender due to lack of resources. Cannnons, were very effecive at this because the cannon's could destroy resource deposits, important buildings, walls, bridges, and anything else that might halt a siege. Because of sieges, many cities have fallen, and losing cities is how nations fall. When a nation falls, the conquering nation becomes stronger, and the conquered nation's allies weaken due to loss of trade, both imports and exports. Some examples are: Siege of Vicksburg, Siege of Leningrad, Siege of St. Petersburg, Siege of Yorktown, Siege of Boston, Siege of Vienna, and the Siege of Paris.

Also, building cannon's provided economic support for the producing country. In the United States during World War II, war resources, including cannons, were being mass produced for the Allied front. Citizen's were being paid money to donate and to recycle steel and other metals to produce things made of steel.

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World War II Cannon Advancements

In World War Two, the advancement of cannons exploded. Cannons were put on ships, tanks, trucks, and even airplanes. They were used from artillary support to vehicle or ship destroyers to city liberators. Even though this was the greatest advancement of cannons, they wer becoming less noticable, since they were no longer cast iron, muzzle loaded tubes of iron that fired with a fuse but steel killing machines. They came in various sizes, from mortars to .70 caliber guns to howitzers to anti-aircraft cannons to large artillary.