Chinese history

Tea

2700 BCE

The Chinese originally made tea by letting tea leaves steep in water. They drank tea as medicine for several thousand years. By the 8th century tea became a everyday beverage all throughout China.

Improvment in travel by sea/compass

400 BCE

The chinese developed the first as early as the 3rd century B.C.E. They were made up of mineral called lodestone. This helped the chinese with there sea travel.

Steel

200 BCE

Steel was a vey helpful and useful metal. The Chinese first made steel out of iron. It is less brittle and more easier than iron. The earliest iron that was made by the Chinese was made from cast iron.

Medicince and disease prevention

50

Before the 1st century C.E. the Chinese developed a way to fight infections and disease. Whenever somebody died with a dieses the Chinese would burn a chemical that gave a poisonous smoke.

Paper

150

The chinese invented the art of papermaking by the second century C.E. The earliest chinese paper was probably made from hemp and than bark of the mullberry tree.

Printing

650

In about the 7th century, the Chinese invented a technique called wood block printing. The printer would draw character on paper than when it was done the Chinese would place the paper on a block of wood and it would dry and print the characters.

Bridge improvement

700

The Chinese improved bridges in 618 C.E. A Chinese engineer created a new design for bridges. This design is the arched bridge which most bridges, in China, are like nowadays.

Gunpowder

850

Chinese alchemists acceidently discovered gunpowder when trying to find a substance that would make human immortals.

Rocket Technology

1300

The used gun powder to make fireworks and than they turned them into weapons and went up high and they dropped the arrows down.