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3000 BCE
silk
this material used to be a chinese secret but then it was leaked to the world -
2700 BCE
tea
this beverage first invented in china and was mainly used for medicine and it was very popular -
618 BCE
bridges
used to get over rivers these are considered common and are very useful -
Period: 300 BCE to 1400
chinese inventions
the chinese added many things to the world -
210 BCE
abacus
the first calculator used -
206 BCE
compass
using bamboo load stone and water they were able to find north -
200 BCE
the great wall
this is the most memorable part of china, a giant wall up north -
150
paper
a new tablet to write on instead of using rocks or clay -
220
porcelain
they used this material to make vases -
850
gunpowder
the chinese were trying to make a life saving metal and it did not work and this is what they got
