Arquebus used in a sentence

Arquebus in a sentence as a noun

Training someone to wield a warbow took a lifetime; training someone to use an arquebus took a few weeks.

It's also interesting to look at what the Chinese don't invent--they invented gunpowder, but neither corned gunpowder nor the arquebus; they never appear to have been much interested in geodesy or cottoned on to the idea of the spherical Earth; they developed printing, movable type, and paper but never developed the printing press nor the literary industry of Western Europe.