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2650 BCE
Chinese Tea
Basic tea cultivation and processing has not changed.Tea farmers grow small tea trees or shrubs on high ground.The Dutch British produced and traded tea throughout their empires. -
850 BCE
gun powder
Chinese invented gun powder -
Period: 300 BCE to 1400
Chinese history
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250 BCE
Chinese travel
The Chinese developed the first compass. The compass were pieces of a magnetic mineral called lodestone -
150
Porcelain
Another Chinese invention is a type of fine pottery called porcelain. Some historians think that the Chinese produced the first porcelain as early as the 1st century.Porcelain is made by combining clay with the minerals quartz and feldspar. The mixture is baked in a kiln, or pottery oven, at very high temperatures. -
150
Disease Prevention
Chinese knowledge of medicine and disease prevention dates to ancient times.we know that many diseases are caused by germs. We prevent the spread of disease by using disinfectants—
substances, such as chlorine bleach—that kill germs. The poisonous smoke used by the Chinese was a type of disinfectant. -
450
Water travel
They traveled by boats by rivers and lakes.They invented a boat called paddle wheel.This boat made travel faster. -
450
Paper making
The Chinese invented the art of paper making by the second century .The earliest Chinese paper was probably made from hemp and then the bark of the mulberry tree. -
700
Military technology
The Chinese developed powerful weapons like gun powder. The Chinese had made the first weapon that used gun powder, the flamethrower. -
1200
Game cards and Paper money
Game cards were invented in china in about the 9th century. Printers used woodblock printing to make the cards from thick paper. Paper was invented by the Chinese in the 8th or early 9th century. Song printers were using multiple wood block to print each bill.
