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Title: Chinese Inventions


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Chinese Inventions
  • By Romil

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Fireworks
  • The first Fireworks were probably made by
    stuffing gunpowder in to bamboo sticks.
  • Gunpowder was possibly discovered by Chinese
    medicine men searching for healing plants and
    cures.
  • They thought that the explosions would scare off
    evil spirits and ghosts

3
Silk
  • A few centuries ago, the European traders came to
    get the smooth silk from the Chinese.
  • Only the Chinese knew that silk was made from
    silkworms because they kept the secret to
    themselves.
  • It takes 40,000 silk worms to make just 5 and a
    half kilograms!

4
The Compass
  • Historians believe that the Chinese Invented
    magnetic compass and used it for navigation.
  • Arab leaders sailing to China probably learned of
    the Chinese method of sailing by compass and
    returned home with the invention

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Paper
  • Paper was first invented in China about 105 A.D.
  • Its use then spread to Chinese Turkestan in
    Central Asia Syria,Egypt,Morocco,Spain,Southern
    France,and the rest of Europe
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