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chinese history

By matthew klein
  • silk
    3000 BCE

    silk

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

    tea

    this beverage first invented in china and was mainly used for medicine and it was very popular
  • bridges
    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
  • abacus
    210 BCE

    abacus

    the first calculator used
  • compass
    206 BCE

    compass

    using bamboo load stone and water they were able to find north
  • the great wall
    200 BCE

    the great wall

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

    paper

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

    porcelain

    they used this material to make vases
  • gunpowder
    850

    gunpowder

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