HISTORY
ANCIENT CHINA
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pennies, weather and socks
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silk, bronze and fireworks
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Thermometer and grass
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Water
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Detailed explanation-1: -This includes the Four Great Inventions: papermaking, the compass, gunpowder, and printing (both woodblock and movable type).
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Paper money was first developed and used in China during the Tang dynasty (7th century).
Detailed explanation-4: -Paper Making 105 A.C. Movable Type Printing 960-1279 AD. Gunpowder 1000 A.D. Compass 1100 A.D. Alcohol 2000 BC1600 BC. Mechanical Clock 725 A.D. Tea Production 2, 737 BC. Silk 6, 000 years ago. More items