Ancient Chinese Contributions Elizabeth Finch Professor Karen Lewis HUM 111-World Culture 1 November 26, 2011 Ancient China has played a significant part in many famous inventions that have had a major impact in our lives from day to day. No matter how small they seem to be their inventions have helped us in so many ways that we have taken for granted. How many of us have ever given a thought to those that have made our lives easier by their inventions? There are quite a few from the
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The invention of gunpowder was one of China’s greatest inventions that made a significant contribution to Chinese culture and to the present world. Although, today we mainly use gunpowder for fireworks, for entertainment purposes, the Chinese used it to scare-off enemies in the time of war. Gunpowder was discovered in the tenth century by Chinese medicine men that were looking for the secret to immortality. Chinese scientists discovered that an explosive mixture could be produced by combining sulfur
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Ancient Chinese Contributions In: Philosophy and Psychology Ancient Chinese ContributionsAncient Chinese Contributions The world is forever in debt to China for its innovations and contributions. Ancient Chinese inventions were extremely advanced and are still in use in today. They have contributed to our world civilization’s achievements in the fields of agriculture, shipping, astronomy, printing, oil, martial arts, ammunition, and mathematics. Ancient Chinese inventions such as gunpowder
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The Many Contributions There is no doubt that the Ancient Chinese were wise powerful and grew prosperous. Ancient China has played a significant part in many famous inventions that have had a major impact in our lives from day to day. How many of us have ever given a thought to those that have made our lives easier by their inventions? There are quite a few from the Ancient Chinese that I was not aware of and was amazed at how many of these we do use in our lives every day and never stop to think
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Ancient Chinese Contributions This paper will highlight some of the inventions of the ancient Chinese and focus on four that many believe to be the most important to society today. China is the oldest living civilization in the world. Because of the vast history, dating 5,000 years, Chinese history is broken down into dynasties. The Chinese have made a copious amount of inventions in history, four of which we will go into great detail about in this paper- printing, gunpowder, compass, and paper
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Ancient Chinese Contributions The world is forever in debt to China for its innovations and contributions. Ancient Chinese inventions were extremely advanced and are still in use in today. They have contributed to our world civilization’s achievements in the fields of agriculture, shipping, astronomy, printing, oil, martial arts, ammunition, and mathematics. Ancient Chinese inventions such as gunpowder, silk, paper, printing, tea, wheel barrow, iron plows, deep drilling, porcelain, toilet
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Ancient Chinese Contributions Ancient Chinese Contributions Roland Moreland Prof. Harry Stansbury HUM111 15th November, 2011 Ancient Chinese Contributions Introduction Innovations and inventions have significantly shaped the world today (Sayre, 2012, pp. 213-214). There are several inventions and developments that may be thought to have come from the Western countries. However, many of the inventions have their origin in China. Just as, Frater (2007) argues, “everything
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HIS 111 World Civilizations I Activity 3 – Ancient Chinese Inventions 25 points Name: Bryce Ross Directions: After having viewed the videos provided in the course, respond to the following questions. Place your responses on this document under each question. Be sure to keep my questions on here. Your responses must be in paragraph format and must be double-spaced, 12-point font, and include proper grammar, spelling, and sentence construction. A title page is not necessary, but your name
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1. I learned that, being an entrepreneur, you are required to take more risks than anybody else. Flying a plane with no direction is a constant casual situation in business. In this area of business, emotional breakdown and surprises are going to appear all the time. b. I think I earned the scores because majority of the trait that I lack are financial management. Managing my money has always been constantly a trouble for me. To be an entrepreneur, you have to be cautious on what you spend and
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Ancient Chinese Contributions By HUM 111 Professor Michael Briere May 15, 2012 Inventions, Innovations, and other Contributions From Ancient China Although Chinese culture is replete with lists of significant works or achievements such as: compass, papermaking, iron technology (cast iron), silk, first water powered blast furnace, gunpowder, medicine, paper money and certificates of deposit, printing, helicopter rotor and propeller, etc. Among, undoubtedly, many inventions, four stand
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