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In ancient china, tea was used mostly for medicine, and was made by letting tea leaves in boiling water.
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The Chinese first made steel, a very useful metal, before 200 B.C.E. Steel is made from iron, but it is less brittle than iron and easier to bend into different shapes.
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Another Chinese invention is a type of fine pottery called porcelain. Some historians think that the Chinese produced the first porcelain as early as the 1st century
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The Chinese invented the art of papermaking by the second century C.E. The earliest Chinese paper was
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The Chinese invented the paddle boat with multiple paddles that would be run by someone on a treadmill
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The Chinese invented a printer that would print characters (Letters/Words) with black ink on to The printer first drew characters (symbols) on paper. Then they would glued the paper to a wooden block. When the glue was dry, the printer carved out the wood around the characters, leaving the characters raised on the wood.
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Printers would use woodblock onto thick paper and famous artist would put the designs on the back.
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Chinese alchemist accidentally invented and discovered gunpowder when trying to find a way to eternal life.
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The Chinese invented the compass with a magnetic needle that points north so they can navigate through the ocean.
