Chinese discovery's

The chinese crossbow also known as The Quinn crossbow

700 BCE

the chinese crossbow the easiest to use (and most powerful) standard issue weapon of its time

lodestone compass

300 BCE

The Chinese realized that if you put a piece of lodestone on a floating piece of wood in water it would point north so they used it as a compass on their ships

steelmaking

200 BCE

In 200 BC the Chinese people learned if you blew in to the moltan iron the iron turned into steel which is much stronger and far less brittle then iron.

gunpowder

700

it was originally invented as an elixir for eternal life they mixed sulfur potassium nitrate and carbon together than it ignited And it blew up and everyone in the building died the end thank you for coming to my TED talk.(it also changed the face of all Warfare for the rest of History but We don't need to talk about that)

mechanical clock

750

The Chinese created the first ever mechanical clock basically there's a wheel and it will complete a turn once every 24 hours water will drip onto the wheel causing it to turn every hour Bells would ring and every quarter of an hour drums would beat

Tea

750

Tea was made by growing tea leaves drying them out in the sun for several weeks putting the leaves in a hot dry wok for a final drying grinding them up steeping them in a teapot then pouring it into a cup then and drinking itIt was originally used as medicine but then it took off as an amazing beverage And everyone started drinking tea So tea farming became a very lucrative business.

playing cards

850

they were entertainment and believe it or not a form of currency in ancient china.

Paper money

900

before paper money we had to use coins and before that we traded our things to get other things in return

flamethrowers

1000

this thing shot a mixture of flaming oil and gunpowder at the enemy burning them to death.

moveable type

1050

Moving type consists of several characters made of wood That is covered in Ink. and that is stamped down on paper because of how easy it was to make books more books were made which meant Learning was able to spread throughout China because more books were out there to be read.