The legacy of Chinese inventions
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- The legacy of Chinese inventions
- Along with paper came the method of block printing.This technique involved carving the text in reverse to stand out an a block of wood. It took very long to carve the blocks for each page. The block was painted with ink and pressed onto paper to create a printed page.
- The Chinese invented paper around A.D. 100.
- Printing and paper money
- The innovation of movable type made it easier and cheaper to print blocks.
- Government regulations, literature, and Confucianism and Buddhism are so much simpler now.
- Sorry, coins are too bulky to move around, take an IOU.
- Ugh, fine!
- With the growing population, the demand for coins grew. 6 million were minted per year.
- Printing and paper money continued
- Around 1100, the first government-backed currency was issued.
- Alchemists discovered gunpowder when trying to turn worthless metals into gold
- TOO LATE HAHAHA! YOUR SO SCREWED NOW!!
- Gunpowder, the Magnetic Compass, and Porcelain
- Use gunpowder to beef up the army. Keep it secret, we want to maintain the upper hand if we are forced to battle.
- *The USA is obsessed with gun violence
- Compasses were a sliver of magnetized iron either in water or hanging on a silk thread.
- It was not until the 1100s were people using compasses for navigation
- Gunpowder, the Magnetic Compass, and Porcelain continued
- Porcelain was very valuable as it was strong, light, sometimes see-through, and its ingredients were secret
- My precious!
- The compass was only used for celebratory means only until A.D. 100 when they started using them for navigation.
- Summary
- Porcelain was used to make kitchenware, vases and more it was very valuable as very few knew how to make it.
- Wow, these three sound like winners! These will probably will spark new ideas, wont they?
- Gunpowder was used to beef up chinas armies and make weapons and fireworks.
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