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chinese history

  • 3000 BCE

    silk

    silk
    this material used to be a chinese secret but then it was leaked to the world
  • 2700 BCE

    tea

    tea
    this beverage first invented in china and was mainly used for medicine and it was very popular
  • 618 BCE

    bridges

    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

    abacus
    the first calculator used
  • 206 BCE

    compass

    compass
    using bamboo load stone and water they were able to find north
  • 200 BCE

    the great wall

    the great wall
    this is the most memorable part of china, a giant wall up north
  • 150

    paper

    paper
    a new tablet to write on instead of using rocks or clay
  • 220

    porcelain

    porcelain
    they used this material to make vases
  • 850

    gunpowder

    gunpowder
    the chinese were trying to make a life saving metal and it did not work and this is what they got