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CHINA!

Published on Nov 19, 2015

Ancient China, it's struggles, and it's discoveries.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ANCIENT CHINA

TERRIBLE SETTLERS

North: Gobi Desert
East: Ocean
South: Himalayas
West: Jungle
Everywhere: Sickness and Earthquakes

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INVENTIONS

  • Compass
  • Sailing
  • Inoculation
  • Seismograph
  • Umbrella
Inoculation is curing sickness by introducing the sickness to the body, like live flu shots.
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ALSO NOTEWORTHY

  • Gunpowder
  • First Bronze Age
  • Kites
  • Stirrups
  • Alcohol

Many people believe that many of the discoveries that we use today were invented by the Europeans, while really many of these inventions were invented hundreds of years earlier in China.

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AND OF COURSE

THE GREAT WALL
Photo by Bernd Thaller

SOURCES

Photo by Tara Haze