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2700 BCE
Tea
For several thousands years tea made by letting tea leaves steep in boiling water.The tea was not used as something to drink when it is cold out or in the morning.The tea was used for when someone was sick it was medicine for them. -
700 BCE
Writing
The Chinese invented a technique called woodblock printing.The printer drew characters on a piece of paper.After they drew the characters they glued the piece of paper with the characters on it to a wood block. -
618 BCE
Bridges
The Chinese hired people to make their bridges better so they can get across a lake or a ocean. They made the bridges so that they were rested arches that were half circles. -
300 BCE
Compass
The first chinese compasses were pieces of magnetic material called lodestone.Since lodestone is a magnetic material it is influenced by earths magnetic poles -
Period: 300 BCE to 1400
China
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200 BCE
Boats
They started building ships with separate watertight compartments.They divided the ships into separate sections and sealed each section with caulk. -
200 BCE
Steel
The chinese made steel.Steel is a very strong metal.Steel is made from iron but it is less brittle than iron and easier to bend into different shapes -
850
Gunpowder
Chinese alchemists looking for a substance that would allow you to live forever accidentally create gunpowder. -
950
Flamethrower
The flamethrower contains gunpowder with oil.When a enemy was attacking they would bring out the flamethrower and use it as a wepon to spray off the enemys -
950
Porcelain
Hundreds of thousands of people worked to make bowls and stuff out off porecelain. Porecelain is made out of quartz and feldspar. When they made it it was waterproof. -
Trade
Dutch traders brought seeds from japan and china to their colonies in Indonesia.The dutch traders would produce tea that they could farm and they could trade that to other people for items in return.
