Made in China We are long used to hearing stories of China’s seemingly endless inventions. Gunpowder, kites, the compass and paper money are just the beginning, but what is perhaps less widely known is that China’s inventions have been a lot more hi tech than for which the country is often given credit. Historians are of the opinion that between 600 AD and 1500 AD China was unparalleled in science and technology. Be it astronomy or meteorology, physics or chemistry, mathematics or engineering China excelled others in every field. Important Chinese gifts to technology include modern agriculture, decimal mathematics, the umbrella, shipping, astronomical observations, the wheel barrow, the game of chess and even multi staged rockets. By first discovering and inventing the prerequisite technologies of modernity China was to make invaluable contributions
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exploration making it very clear that our modern world would be very different if it were not for our eastern cousins.