Chinese Inventions.

  • Tea
    2700 BCE

    Tea

    Made by letting tea leaves steep in boiling water and was drunk mostly as medicine.
  • Period: 300 BCE to 1400

    Chinese History

  • Steel
    200 BCE

    Steel

    It is made from iron, but it is less brittle than iron and easier to bend into different shapes.
  • Papermaking
    150

    Papermaking

    Made from hemp and then the bark of the mulberry tree
  • Compass
    250

    Compass

    It has pieces magnetic mineral. It is put in a bowl of water on a piece of wood.
  • Woodblock printing
    650

    Woodblock printing

    This drew symbols on paper
  • Paper Money
    850

    Paper Money

    This was printed with wood blocks. Song printers were using multiple wood blocks to print each bill. A single bill would have many colors.
  • Gunpowder
    850

    Gunpowder

    Chinese alchemists looking for eternal life accidentally discovered gunpowder.
  • Porcelain
    950

    Porcelain

    It is made by combining clay with minerals quartz and feldspar. They put it in a kiln and is heated. It makes a white hard and waterproof pottery.
  • Movable Type
    1050

    Movable Type

    If you need to print they select the characters they need an place them in an iron frame in the order.