HISTORY
ANCIENT CHINA
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guns
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paper
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printing
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compass
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Detailed explanation-1: -China is noted for having invented gunpowder, the printing press, paper and the magnetic compass all of which are still in use, in modernised forms today. In the West we focus on those four because we learnt them from the Chinese around the sixteenth century and they had a significant effect on the West at the time.
Detailed explanation-2: -The United States The U.S. is the hub of all innovative inventions.
Detailed explanation-3: -The concept of zero was an Indian invention. The printing machine, gunpowder and the marine compass were all Chinese inventions.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Chinese learned how to make silk from the cocoons of silkworms. They managed to keep the process for making silk a secret for hundreds of years.